There are worse things than being thirty-five, single, and female in New York. Like: Being twenty-five, singled, and female in New York. It’s a rite of passage few women would want to repeat. It’s about...

The city was different back then–poor and crumbling–kept alive only by the gritty determination and steely cynicism of its occupants. But underneath the dirt was the apple-cheeked optimism of possibility, and while she worked, the...

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

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.

This, Sebastian is no mere purse. And, you shouldn’t call a handbag a purse…..a bag, on the other hand, is meant to be seen.

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

Men do suck.

The car was on the FDR drive now and, turning her head, she glanced out at the bleak brown buildings of the projects that stretched for blocks along the drive. Something inside her sank at...

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.

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?

Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets.

Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who’s in crisis?

The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,’ he was fond of saying. ‘People want to know immediately what they’re dealing with. And when they think about you, you’ve got to stand out...

Just because someone is a girl doesn’t mean she can’t be tough and practical and have adventures. That’s the way most girls are-until they get around guys. Then guys make them act all stupid.

Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder–no matter how old you became and how much you’d seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.

You can get used to anything, I guess, if you’ve been there enough.

Don’t you know that every writer feels that way? Fear is part of the job.

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal.”-The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

My anger is like some rudimentary, single-celled beast, an exploding virus of fury that paralyses rational thought and blinds me to everything except one single goal…

Why shouldn’t I? I demand silently. Why shouldn’t I become a famous writer? Like Norman Mailer. Or Philip Roth. And F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemmingway and all those other men. Why can’t I be like...

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

It was the first honest emotional connection I’d had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.

Is this better or worse than being married and living in the suburbs? Better or worse? Who can tell?

Sex. It’s the biggest sham of all. I mean, your life, all you ever hear is how you’re supposed to save yourself for marriage. And how its so special. And then you finally do it....

Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, as if to beat his uncertainty into submission.

Money follows art. Money wants what it can’t buy. Class and talent. And remember while there’s a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.

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...

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

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...

Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw

Maybe mistakes are what make our fate… without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn’t fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After...