Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

"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."

"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 sleeping with the wrong men, wearing the wrong clothes, having the wrong roommate, saying the wrong thing, being ignored, getting fired, not being taken seriously, and generally being treated like shit. But it's necessary."

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

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

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

"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 all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away"

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