305 Quotes by Candace Bushnell

  • Author Candace Bushnell
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    If you walk into a woman’s apartment and nothing’s out of place, you know she’s not going to want to stay in bed all day and order in Chinese food and eat it in bed. She’s going to make you get up and eat toast at the kitchen table.

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    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.

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    She didn’t want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn’t fit in, but she didn’t want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.

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

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    Like, is this really what you think all guys are like?” “The piece isn’t even about guys though,” I protest. “It’s about the expectations on girls, that’s all.

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    It’s like now that I’m looking for inequality, I’m seeing it everywhere, categorizing a thousand great and small unfairnesses everywhere I go. Why didn’t I really see this before?

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  • Author Candace Bushnell
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    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.

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