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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: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 1
Columnist
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Carrie Bradshaw
Doe
Lipstick
Jungle
Relationships
Sex
City
Cities
Success
Power

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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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I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
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You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
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Grace was one of those types who never changed but only aged and had no apparent expectations or ambitions other than the wish that her life should remain the same.
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I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.
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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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. . . She was obsessed with clothes and status, how she never gave a thought to being responsible for her own actions, or even what she might do for anyone else-making her the ultimate example of all that was wrong and misguided about young women today.
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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
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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.
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I can only hope he's an Aries and not a Scorpio.
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This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer.
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Funny always makes the bad things go away.
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You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.
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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.
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As long as you're neurotic and crazy, he's great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes the problem.
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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.
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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.
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And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?
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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.
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You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don’t want it to last.
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