Is There Still Sex in the City? Quotes

“In the middle-aged softening, you can’t really tell who was a beauty in their twenties from someone who was plain; nor can you believe that the bald guy who now looks like a potato was once a hot stud. And vice versa. He can’t believe you ever had long hair and a body someone would want to see in a bikini. In this syndrome, it’s common to go to parties and run into old friends whom you haven’t seen for a while and who don’t recognize you. Happily, you’ll find yourself able to return the favor all too often.”
― Candace Bushnell, Is There Still Sex in the City?

“I didn't know it then, but my relationship was like an aneurism - a death waiting to happen.”
― Candace Bushnell, Is There Still Sex in the City?

“So, while the spouse-child hides out in his “home office”—a misnomer since he’s never produced any actual work there—his”
― Candace Bushnell, Is There Still Sex in the City?

“I finally figured out that it’s not possible to have a real partner in life because relationships are inherently sexist,” she said. “You have to be the mommy and the caretaker and when they want to have sex, you have to want to have sex and at a certain point a part of me would say, ‘Why? Why am I”
― Candace Bushnell, Is There Still Sex in the City?

“the bridge from wanting a relationship, with all that entails, to having to settle for its lesser cousin: companionship”
― Candace Bushnell, Is There Still Sex in the City?