Top 120 Candace Bushnell Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

53. “I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me.”

— Candace Bushnell

54. “It’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we’ve been dealt, and accessorize what we’ve got.”

— Candace Bushnell

55. “Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who’s in crisis?”

— Candace Bushnell

56. “I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you’ll always find me, summer or winter.”

— Candace Bushnell

57. “Love is dangerous, if you know it’s dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you’ll work harder to keep it.”

— Candace Bushnell

58. “Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that everyone else says we can’t.”

— Candace Bushnell

59. “Sometimes I want to be on ‘The Real Housewives of New York.’ I want to remind them to figure out how to get along and support each other.”

— Candace Bushnell

60. “Guys are like dogs: they never notice if you’ve changed your hair, but they can sense when there’s another guy sniffing around their territory.”

— Candace Bushnell

61. “Happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.”

— Candace Bushnell

62. “Who am I supposed to be again? Just be yourself. But who am I?”

— Candace Bushnell

63. “At first, being with Sebastian was like being in the middle of the best dream I’d ever had – but now it mostly feels exhausting. I’m up one minute and down the next; questioning what I say and do. Even questioning my sanity.”

— Candace Bushnell

64. “When I was 8, I was reading a book in which it was snowing. When I looked outside, I expected there to be snow on the ground. I thought, “This is the most powerful thing I can do! I’m going to be a writer.””

— Candace Bushnell

65. “It was scary how a girl couldn’t live without friends.”

— Candace Bushnell

66. “All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.”

— Candace Bushnell

67. “The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.”

— Candace Bushnell

68. “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

69. “Always look like you know where you’re going, even when you don’t.”

— Candace Bushnell

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

— Candace Bushnell

71. “I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it’s a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.”

— Candace Bushnell

72. “There’s so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don’t matter now.”

— Candace Bushnell

73. “You can get used to anything, I guess, if you’ve been there enough.”

— Candace Bushnell

74. “My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.”

— Candace Bushnell

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

— Candace Bushnell

76. “If you believe in love, you’re setting yourself up to be disappointed.”

— Candace Bushnell

77. “I’m certainly not going to put my life on hold for him.”

— Candace Bushnell

78. “Funny always makes the bad things go away.”

— Candace Bushnell

79. “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

80. “I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.”

— Candace Bushnell

81. “After all, it’s woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.”

— Candace Bushnell

82. “I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I’ve got a Doppelganger somewhere.”

— Candace Bushnell

83. “The heart wants what the heart wants.”

— Candace Bushnell

84. “I can safely conclude that we are single because we want to be.”

— Candace Bushnell

85. “So much of being a woman is telling lies.”

— Candace Bushnell

86. “It’s always the people who don’t want things who get them.”

— Candace Bushnell

87. “Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?”

— Candace Bushnell

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

— Candace Bushnell

89. “As long as you’re neurotic and crazy, he’s great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes the problem.”

— Candace Bushnell

90. “I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn’t going to get married.”

— Candace Bushnell

91. “I’m looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.”

— Candace Bushnell

92. “Grace was one of those types who never changed but only aged and had no apparent expectations or ambitions other than the wish that her life should remain the same.”

— Candace Bushnell

93. “Meanwhile I’ll probably see him again. That’s how sick I am.”

— Candace Bushnell

94. “I don’t go to parties to meet men. I go to parties to stand in a corner and watch people.”

— Candace Bushnell

95. “It was the first honest emotional connection I’d had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.”

— Candace Bushnell

96. “I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.”

— Candace Bushnell

97. “My decorating and renovation skills are nil – indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as ’window dressing.”

— Candace Bushnell

98. “I don’t consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don’t quit a career.”

— Candace Bushnell

99. “Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!”

— Candace Bushnell

100. “My share. I hate owing anyone anything. Don’t you?”

— Candace Bushnell