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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
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Candace Bushnell
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 1
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Carrie Bradshaw
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I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.
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Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?
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It was scary how a girl couldn't live without friends.
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I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married.
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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.
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Happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
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- 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.
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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.
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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.
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What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?
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Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie
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I can only hope he's an Aries and not a Scorpio.
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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?
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