Quotes from Candace Bushnell

Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't

It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.

Love is spiritual. It's about self-sacrifice and commitment. And discipline. You cannot have true love without discipline and respect. When you lose the respect of your spouse, you've lost everything.

After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.

I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.

Meanwhile I'll probably see him again. That's how sick I am.

And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?

It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn't think they deserved to do nothing.

So much of being a woman is telling lies

The only way to look at men is like they're electrons. They have all these charges sticking out, and they're always looking for a hole where they can put those charges.

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal. -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

He leans over and kisses me. And suddenly, my life splits in two: before and after.