More - Candace Bushnell Quotes

I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single people. In New York City, it's 47 percent. When you have that many people who are single, they have a bigger voice and they're more willing to speak and say, 'We're not miserable, we're not sitting at home waiting for Mr. or Ms. Right, we're having a good time.' And I think single people have better friendships.

Candace Bushnell

 

I think that they're characters who women either are themselves or are their friends.

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[As might befit a Bushnell character, she had it both ways.] I'm lucky. They send me the tapes, ... I will probably watch it (later).

Candace Bushnell

 

Sex and the City to me never really was about sex, that was kind of the icing on the cake. Success is the new sex.

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I was all excited. I'd been writing for women's magazines and felt marginalized. No one takes you seriously.

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When I started writing 'Sex and the City,' I was writing about women I knew in New York who were in their 30s. In a way, this is the women I was writing about in 'Sex and the City' 10 years later. They're more grown-up, more established. They've found their ways,

Candace Bushnell

 Age And Aging

We're comfortable with movie stars having money. We're comfortable with a woman marrying a rich guy and having money. We're not so comfortable with a woman independently working in business and making a lot of money.

Candace Bushnell

 

It's really about the challenges, dreams and fears of contemporary, modern women.

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 Challenges

Since I had to write every week, I knew the column had to be about something I know.

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It was like time began to reverse, and somehow they managed to look better and younger-looking than they had in their thirties,

Candace Bushnell