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

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

A man came up to her. Expensively tailored suit. Okay, he wasn't exactly a man because he was only thirty-five. But he was trying.

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

Is this better or worse than being married and living in the suburbs? Better or worse? Who can tell?

- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it.
+ Then you shouldn't be a writer.

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?

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

Maybe you can't have it both ways. His life and your life. How do you put two lives together, anyway?

When it comes to people
don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.

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

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.

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

Something good happens to you, and you let off a different energy that attracts other good things.

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

Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets.

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

She had very little money, but she wasn't afraid-there was only one place to go, and that was up.

Have I ever been in love? Really in love? And why is it that with each new guy I think I'm more in love with him than the last?

I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore.

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

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

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

The minute you get engaged, you become public property.

I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.

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

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal.
-The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

Better alone than badly accompanied.

When one good thing happened to you, other good things seemed to follow.

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.

People are always telling women to lose weight, and then when they do, other women attack them for it.

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.

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

So much of being a woman is telling lies

Sebastian (Se-bastard) is a Scorpio..

Don't be silly, my dear. Threats are only meaningful if you have the power to execute them. And you, my dear, do not.

Man might have identified fire, but women identified the way to enjoy with it.

Oh I don't plan on getting married. It's a legalized form of prostitution.

I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married.

What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?

You know what they say: A woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle.

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

Damn him. Damn everything. Why is it all so goddamned hard?

It's always the people who don't want things who get them.

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.

After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.

The one thing you have to remember about labels is that they only matter if you let them stick.

It's hard to be careful, though, when you feel indestructible.

This, Sebastian is no mere purse. And, you shouldn't call a handbag a purse ... a bag, on the other hand, is meant to be seen.

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

You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.

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

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

Meanwhile I'll probably see him again. That's how sick I am.

She could tell by Philip's attitude that his writing wasn't going well again. He was joyous when it was and miserable when it wasn't.

Everything I need is in my head, and no one can take that away.

His mother had become impossible, as, he supposed, all elderly people were when they refused to accept that their lives had to change.

I could live here forever. Maybe even become real New Yorker someday.

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

What Sex and the City did for sex and relationships, Lipstick Jungle does for success and power.

It was important to remember who you were and where you came from, no matter how successful you became.

I have this theory: You can get away with anything as long as you act like you're not doing anything wrong.

I've never understood sexy lingerie. I mean, what's the point? The guy's only going to take it off.

I don't go to parties to meet men. I go to parties to stand in a corner and watch people.

Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't

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.

I like my money right where I can see it ... hanging in my closet

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.

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I'm afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?

That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.

I adore him," she said. "I feel compassion for him because he's totally fucked up.

Sometimes the best thing to do is to
pretend it didn't happen

I'm a realist. Just because you had sex once doesn't mean you have to fall in love.

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.

Sex and the City was about looking for Mr Big and trying to find him.

Men, Babies, it doesn't matter...we're soulmates

He was juggling issues and solving problems, which was why his brain had no space left for memories.

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

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

My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'

Your moustache," I continue. "It's kind of like me wanting to be a writer. It's part of me. I don't know who I'd be if I didn't want to be a writer.

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

Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.

Remember the stories you used to write? About that billionaire. You made fun of his fingers! Woo-hooo. 'Short-fingered vulgarian,' you called him.

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.

There is a thin line between attraction and repulsion

Yow. Guys can be so insecure.

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

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

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

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

I can only hope he's an Aries and not a Scorpio.

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

Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie

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

From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true - he probably is.

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

I stare up the stars, intensely aware of his body a few inches from mine. If this isn't romance, I don't know what is.

It was scary how a girl couldn't live without friends.

If I didn't define who I was and what I wanted, then someone else would.