Candace Bushnell
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"Candace Bushnell" is an American novelist and television producer. She wrote a column for The New York Observer (1994–96) that was adapted into the bestselling Sex and the City (book)/Sex and the City anthology. The book was the basis for the HBO hit series Sex and the City (1998–2004) and two subsequent movies.

Bushnell followed the best-selling work with the international bestselling novels 4 Blondes (2001), Trading Up (novel)/Trading Up (2003), Lipstick Jungle (novel)/Lipstick Jungle (2005), One Fifth Avenue (2008), The Carrie Diaries (2010) and Summer and the City (2011). Two of her novels have been adapted for television: Lipstick Jungle (TV series)/Lipstick Jungle (2008–09) on NBC, and The Carrie Diaries (TV series)/The Carrie Diaries (since 2013) on The CW. One Fifth Avenue has been optioned by the Mark Gordon Company and American Broadcasting Company/ABC for yet another television show.

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[Ms. Bushnell, whose work has always been informed by the goings-on in her personal life, said that in recent years she and her friends were having conversations about more than men, Manolos and martinis.] When we get together we're not really talking about sex and relationships, ... We're talking about work and career.

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To me, now being in my 40s and a bit more successful, it makes you feel a little bit more generous toward other people. You don't have to male-bash.

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That's kind of a difficult question, because people say I'm one of the people who started it ... but I think my books are much more satirical.

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Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

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Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside. ... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

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The women in this book have realized that you can't completely rely on men, ... Women have got to rely on themselves.

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When I started writing 'Sex and the City,' I was writing about women I knew in New York who were in their 30s. In a way, this is the women I was writing about in 'Sex and the City' 10 years later. They're more grown-up, more established. They've found their ways.

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Lipstick Jungle: A Novel.

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