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

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Candace Bushnell
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 1
Columnist
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Carrie Bradshaw
Jungle
Relationships
Sex
City
Cities
Success
Power
Doe
Lipstick

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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.
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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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I make mistakes. That's what I do. I speak without thinking, I act without knowing. I drink so much that I can barely walk...I'm a fantastic lover though, and an amazing friend. God knows I mean well.
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I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.
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My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
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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.
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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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The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.
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Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.
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Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.
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I've always thought there are two ways of getting what you wanted in life.Forcing people to give it to you,or making them want to give it to you.
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From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is.
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It's always the people who don't want things who get them.
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If you smile, even if you’re feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking you’re happy
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Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.
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This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer.
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... he was juggling issues and solving problems, which was why his brain had no space left for memories.
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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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There is a thin line between attraction and repulsion
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A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance.
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