Candace Bushnell Quotes
The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
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It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, 'Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.' I'm sure people don't say to Eddie Redmayne, 'How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?'
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I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.
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It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.
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In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.
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Women are amazing lovers.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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You have frightened and daunted me. I will stop stealing at once.
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I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have.
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Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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Writing might be unalloyed joy, were it not for the fact that power is always shadowed by responsibility. Thankfully, the absolute power that writers have is not weighted down with absolute responsibility. It can neither be suppressed nor diminished, except by choice.
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The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.
