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If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.

You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.

Candace Bushnell

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

Candace Bushnell

The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.

Candace Bushnell

The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.

Candace Bushnell

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

Candace Bushnell

I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.

Candace Bushnell

New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

Candace Bushnell

Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.

Candace Bushnell

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

Candace Bushnell

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

Candace Bushnell

What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.

Candace Bushnell

I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.

Candace Bushnell

The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

Candace Bushnell

I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.

Candace Bushnell

The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way.

Candace Bushnell

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

Candace Bushnell

Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.

Candace Bushnell

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.

Candace Bushnell

I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

Candace Bushnell

I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

Candace Bushnell

You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.

Candace Bushnell

I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college.

Candace Bushnell

We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.

Candace Bushnell

If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.

Candace Bushnell

I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.

Candace Bushnell

I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.

Candace Bushnell

Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.

Candace Bushnell

I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.

Candace Bushnell

Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.

Candace Bushnell