Candace Bushnell Quotes

It's worth paying attention to the roles that are sort of dictated to us and that we don't have to fit into those roles. We can be anybody we wanna be.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

Young women should realize that young men they date will not honor and respect them if they have been involved in moral transgression.

I don't know, so much of women's femininity is tied up with their hair.

I don't want to live up to how people expect me to be.

I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.

When I don't have a girlfriend, who I am answerable to, I can go out and hang with people. But whether you go for a movie with someone or a meal or a drive, it is assumed that you are dating that person.

I have got one of those faces that change every day: you can dress me up, make me look vampy and then make me look 12 years old. But don't all women do this thing? We all take on these roles.

A woman simply is, but a man must become.

But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

I'm not a blender. I don't like people who blend into society.

I've got to do it my way. I can't compromise and be someone else.

I walk in the world as a woman because I am a woman, and people should take me as that. I'm not passing as anything that I'm not. I'm just being myself.

I started out with makeup in 1963, 1964. And in 1965, I was coming out more, and I was still wearing makeup, but I was still going to jail just for wearing makeup.

Every woman in this world is allowed to define themselves how they want.

What makes a girl a girl? What makes a guy a guy? Do you have to be what they want you to be? Or do you stop and listen to that voice inside you? I know who I am. I'm Petra West. And I'm a girl. You want me to sleep somewhere else, fine. Whatever. But I'm not going to pretend to be somebody I'm not. I've done enough of that.

I keep saying, 'Don't change. Be who you are,' but society is really strong in their opinions.

I’m not trying to be, like, the bisexual, lesbian rapper. I don’t live on other people’s terms.

Each human being has his or her own sexual identity and should be able to exercise that identity without guilt as long as they do not force that sexual identity on others.

Everybody sacrifices something in an attempt to reach what they think society wants.

Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything?

Drag threatens people because it exposes and mocks identity. Because most people believe that they are what it says they are on their driver's license. But the truth is we are all born naked, and the rest is drag.

There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics.