Top 120 Candace Bushnell Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”

— Candace Bushnell

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2. “Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw.”

— Candace Bushnell

3. “The universe may not always play fair, but at least it’s got a hell of a sense of humor.”

— Candace Bushnell

4. “What if I’m a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?”

— Candace Bushnell

5. “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.”

— Candace Bushnell

6. “Better alone than badly accompanied.”

— Candace Bushnell

7. “Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.”

— Candace Bushnell

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8. “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.”

— Candace Bushnell

9. “I’m not ashamed of anything I’ve done. Shame is a useless emotion.”

— Candace Bushnell

10. “Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.”

— Candace Bushnell

11. “That’s the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.”

— Candace Bushnell

12. “If you smile, even if you’re feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking you’re happy.”

— Candace Bushnell

13. “The key to life is your attitude. Whether you’re single or married or have kids or don’t have kids, it’s how you look at your life, what you make of it. It’s about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.”

— Candace Bushnell

14. “You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.”

— Candace Bushnell

15. “There’s a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.”

— Candace Bushnell

16. “And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don’t have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life?”

— Candace Bushnell

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

— Candace Bushnell

18. “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.”

— Candace Bushnell

19. “Should, is the worst word in the English language. People always think things “should” be a certain way, and when they’re not, they’re disappointed.”

— Candace Bushnell

20. “Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.”

— Candace Bushnell

21. “Lots of famous people are late bloomers. My father says it’s an advantage to be a late bloomer. Because when good things start happening, you’re ready for it.”

— Candace Bushnell

22. “Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder – no matter how old you became and how much you’d seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.”

— Candace Bushnell

23. “I can only hope he’s an Aries and not a Scorpio.”

— Candace Bushnell

24. “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.”

— Candace Bushnell

25. “A guy who is crazily, madly in love with you. A guy who sees how incredible and amazing you are, even though you’re not the cheerleader or even close to the prettiest girl in the school. A guy who thinks you’re beautiful, just the way you are.”

— Candace Bushnell

26. “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

27. “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

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

— Candace Bushnell

29. “Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets.”

— Candace Bushnell

30. “It’s hard to be careful, though, when you feel indestructible.”

— Candace Bushnell

31. “When it comes to people – don’t write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.”

— Candace Bushnell

32. “Men are the hunters and women are the gatherers. Shopping is a form of gathering.”

— Candace Bushnell

33. “I can’t wait to get out of the house. I can’t wait to get out of here. I’ve been telling myself this all week. The ‘getting out of here’ part is unspecified, though. Maybe I simply want to get away from life.”

— Candace Bushnell

34. “Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.”

— Candace Bushnell

35. “I’m really enjoying being single. I’m not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.”

— Candace Bushnell

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36. “Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.”

— Candace Bushnell

37. “From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true – he probably is.”

— Candace Bushnell

38. “If a woman could take care of herself, would she still need a man? Would she even want one? And if she didn’t want a man, what kind of woman would she be? Would she even be a woman? Because it seemed if you were a woman, the only thing you were really supposed to want was a man.”

— Candace Bushnell

39. “I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.”

— Candace Bushnell

40. “All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don’t even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.”

— Candace Bushnell

41. “There is a thin line between attraction and repulsion.”

— Candace Bushnell

42. “As Im writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.”

— Candace Bushnell

43. “Money follows art. Money wants what it can’t buy. Class and talent. And remember while there’s a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.”

— Candace Bushnell

44. “I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can’t hurt you anymore.”

— Candace Bushnell

45. “Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high.”

— Candace Bushnell

46. “Oh I don’t plan on getting married. It’s a legalized form of prostitution.”

— Candace Bushnell

47. “A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I’ve never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance.”

— Candace Bushnell

48. “You don’t want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.”

— Candace Bushnell

49. “Why do magazines do this to women? 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? Men win. That’s how they keep us down.”

— Candace Bushnell

50. “You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don’t want it to last.”

— Candace Bushnell