Candace Bushnell Men Quotations

If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.

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.

What I tried to do with the characters is put them in the same situation that powerful and successful men often find themselves, ... I'm fascinated by what it's like to be a woman in one of those powerful positions because there is really no road map about how you're supposed to behave. Just as society needs to re-evaluate our ideas about femininity and what women can do, we as women need to re-evaluate our ideas about it too.

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.

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.

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

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

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

All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.

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.

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

The only way to look at men is like they're electrons. They have all these charges sticking out, and they're always looking for a hole where they can put those charges.

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

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

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

It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn't think they deserved to do nothing.

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

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.

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

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