That was the wonderful thing about New York: Years of bad blood could be wiped out with a single gesture of friendliness.

But that was the problem with New York: No matter how succesful you thought you were, there was always someone who was richer, more successful, more famous.. The idea of it was sometimes enough to make you want to give up.

Everyone assumed that if you were beautiful, things just fell in your lap?

I don't know where I'm going, but I know I'm going somewhere.

Why do magazine do this to women?" Miranda complains now, glaring at Vogue. "It's all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women feel like they're not good enough. And when women don't feel like they're good enough guess what?" "What?" I (Carrie) ask, picking up the grocery bad, "Men win. That's how they keen us down" she concludes

Memory is just an alternate version of reality.

Because marriage is supposed to make you happy, not make you feel like a rat trapped in a very glamorous cage with twenty-thousand dollar silk draperies.

No one is too busy to pick up the phone, to make a one-minute phone call. No matter how busy they say they are.

Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.