Candace Bushnell quote: "It’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we’ve been dealt, and accessorize what we’ve got."

The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for wome...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I was all excited. I'd been writing for women's magazines and felt marginalized. No one takes you se...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anythin...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had t...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang wh...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

What I tried to do with the characters is put them in the same situation that powerful and successfu...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

That's kind of a difficult question, because people say I'm one of the people who started it ... but...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Out of all the neighborhoods in Manhattan, Soho in particular had the charged atmosphere of a movie ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their chi...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hou...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

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

We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - mor...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Everyone assumed that if you were beautiful, things just fell in your lap?
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

When I started writing 'Sex and the City,' I was writing about women I knew in New York who were in ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

To me, now being in my 40s and a bit more successful, it makes you feel a little bit more generous t...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

People are always telling women to lose weight, and then when they do, other women attack them for i...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

There are so many beautiful girls around that after a while you start looking for someone who can ma...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I don't know. There are so many beautiful girls around, that after a while you start looking for som...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I didn't want it to be this way."
"Yes, you did," she said, "because it is."
"I just want...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Better alone than badly accompanied.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

That was the wonderful thing about New York: Years of bad blood could be wiped out with a single ges...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Sometimes I want to be on 'The Real Housewives of New York.' I want to remind them to figure...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and s...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

No one is too busy to pick up the phone, to make a one-minute phone call. No matter how busy they sa...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm goin...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It somet...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandelie...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

The women in this book have realized that you can't completely rely on men, ... Women have got to re...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I think that they're characters who women either are themselves or are their friends.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I wouldn't be in shallow relationships, so I do nothing. I have no sex and no romance. Who needs it....
CANDACE BUSHNELL

As long as you're neurotic and crazy, he's great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes t...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

A man came up to her. Expensively tailored suit. Okay, he wasn't exactly a man because he was only t...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

There are worse things than being thirty-five, single, and female in New York. Like: Being twenty-fi...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

..he said, he didn't know what to do. He couldn't move forward. He thought, they should move on. He ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I like my money right where I can see it…hanging in my closet
CANDACE BUSHNELL

The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

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

You could say I lived the life, I wrote the book, and then it was made into a TV series starring Sar...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fict...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and mak...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what mad...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I wish I was one of those persnickety types who buys guidebooks and studies them, but I don't ha...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

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

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through lif...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't hav...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I don't know where I'm going, but I know I'm going somewhere.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Since I had to write every week, I knew the column had to be about something I know.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

It's really about the challenges, dreams and fears of contemporary, modern women.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

For me, having it all is being paid to write novels,
CANDACE BUSHNELL

But that was the problem with New York: No matter how succesful you thought you were, there was alwa...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Beware what you consume, lest you appetite grow by what it feeds on.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

When one good thing happened to you, other good things seemed to follow.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing on...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't h...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

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

Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I adore him," she said. "I feel compassion for him because he's totally fucked up.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I can safely conclude that we are single because we want to be.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

[Ms. Bushnell, whose work has always been informed by the goings-on in her personal life, said that ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Lipstick Jungle.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Something good happens to you, and you let off a different energy that attracts other good things.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for them...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small i...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I d...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I ha...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a lit...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contem...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

'Lipstick Jungle' was on the air for 20 episodes - I loved 'Lipstick Jungle.'
CANDACE BUSHNELL

It was like time began to reverse, and somehow they managed to look better and younger-looking than ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

We're comfortable with movie stars having money. We're comfortable with a woman marrying a rich guy ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Sex and the City to me never really was about sex, that was kind of the icing on the cake. Success i...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

[As might befit a Bushnell character, she had it both ways.] I'm lucky. They send me the tapes, ... ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

You could say I lived the life, I wrote the book, and then it was made into a TV series starring Sar...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

That's what's great about life, ... You don't have to keep doing things you did in your 30s. Besides...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

When I first started writing the column and then the book came out, there were so many women who wou...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

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

Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

..he said, he didn't know what to do. He couldn't move forward. He thought, they should move on. He ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

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

Lipstick Jungle: A Novel,
CANDACE BUSHNELL

The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

The car was on the FDR drive now and, turning her head, she glanced out at the bleak brown buildings...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,' he was fond of saying. 'People want to kno...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside. ... Everyone has to find it for th...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thoug...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

When I was running Atari, violence against humanoid figures was not allowed. We'd let you shoot ...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow
HORACE BUSHNELL

Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make th...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

It takes a lot to open up and love.
LAURA BUSHNELL

It takes a lot to open up and love. I think women find their divinity through their disappointment i...
LAURA BUSHNELL

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
HORACE BUSHNELL

I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonder...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

Learning ballroom dancing is great for your brain. But it only works for three to six months. After ...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the ...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring a...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

pipes, not arbiters of content.
NOLAN BUSHNELL

Sonic and I were chatting back before we got on and he was telling me how proud he was to be inducte...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

I'm here to pass the baton, so to speak, to some of these new inductees, many of which are guys that...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lo...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

I think men are lost right now. They don't know what their role is. Women have had power through the...
LAURA BUSHNELL

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot ...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, th...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of m...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good gam...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

It's a great project that allows a recurring revenue stream to happen in bars, restaurants and airli...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.
NOLAN BUSHNELL

Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.
NOLAN BUSHNELL

A good interviewer is able to ferret out what the applicant is really passionate about. Ask them wha...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

People are often very nervous about getting in touch with what's inside. But there's no security in ...
LAURA BUSHNELL

You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something ...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

Atari showed that young people could start big companies. Without that example it would have been ha...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

We had some really powerful technology - Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were v...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some ...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

Selling Atari when I did - I think that's my biggest regret. And I probably should have gotten b...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.
NOLAN BUSHNELL

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, ...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

Walk to work, even if it's four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way t...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a uniq...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves
HORACE BUSHNELL

A lot of what is wrong with corporate America has to do with a culture filled with antibodies traine...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

I've been in navigation systems, robotics, restaurants, communications systems, touch screens, a...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious t...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

Young adults love to play games and they're thirsty for social interaction, but a lot of bar and...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.
NOLAN BUSHNELL

Everybody copied Atari products. So we started messing with them and it was fun. We bought enough ch...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school d...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. T...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the
person who gets out of the showe...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often sim...
HORACE BUSHNELL

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
NOLAN BUSHNELL

I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being ...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
NOLAN BUSHNELL

Every one who has taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries ...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that ex...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

These days when you say 'videogame', people think of immersive games that take over your lif...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

You want your coach's blessing.
CANDACE PARKER

From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my...
CANDACE PARKER

There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. Th...
CANDACE CAMP

We finished the fiscal year at the end of June $7.5 million over budget for fuel costs. If we contin...
CANDACE SMITH

Every time the cost of fuel goes up ten cents a gallon it costs us $1.3 million.
CANDACE SMITH

I've only dunked in one game. I don't want that to be my identity. I want to be known for an all-aro...
CANDACE PARKER

Bumping is really demoralizing for our teachers. If we lose all this ... student achievement will go...
CANDACE MILLINGTON

In addition to those one million gay Republicans reported to have voted for Bush, we are talking abo...
CANDACE GINGRICH

Retailers get it, they understand the value of being a good citizen.
CANDACE CORLETT

The clinics fit consumer's lifestyles, bringing the service to the shopper. Consumers are responding...
CANDACE CORLETT

Expanding for big box store is a challenge, especially in the Northeast. Therefore, retailers will h...
CANDACE CORLETT

The more I learned, the more I became broadly talented, and that worked to my advantage over time.
CANDACE COMBS

Alek is the antithesis of what the media have defined as beauty. She has really opened up the way fo...
CANDACE MATTHEWS

The coach took me out early on. He said I was playing too emotionally. I found my rhythm later on in...
CANDACE NORVILLE

She anchors our defense and our offense. She runs the show. We've held it down while she's gone, but...
CANDACE PARKER

It's a relief to finally do it and get it over with.
CANDACE PARKER

The beauty of entrepreneurship is that it rears itself in very unique ways and this is an example of...
CANDACE CORLETT

The clothes of that era are all about the fabric and the lay of the fabric, and the body was inside ...
CANDACE CORLETT

In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn't a worthwhile goal. You should be able to da...
CANDACE KITA

The whole atmosphere is going to be different. There is tension between all of us.
CANDACE THOMSEN

We've actually tracked a percentage decline in that category going back to 1996,
CANDACE CORLETT

She has done a tremendous job of telling the history.
CANDACE MATTHEWS

You don't hear about it any more ? you don't hear the victims' stories any more.
CANDACE LIGHTNER

She's versatile, can play all positions and dominates the net.
CANDACE KIMMETT

I’m only going say this—love is a wild creature that cannot
be tamed. It’s unconditional....
CANDACE KNOEBEL

It’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we’ve been dealt, and accessorize what we’ve got.

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It’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we’ve been dealt, and accessorize what we’ve got.

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