Candace Bushnell Love Quotations

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

I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.

The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.

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.

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

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

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