Sex and the City was about looking for Mr Big and trying to find him. |
Since I had to write every week, I knew the column had to be about something I know. |
Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside. ... Everyone has to find it for themselves. |
That was a character I created -- my alter ego 10 years ago. She was like me, |
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. |
That's what's great about life, ... You don't have to keep doing things you did in your 30s. Besides it's not really a good look being in a club when you're 46 years old. The people in the clubs could be your children. |
The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman. |
The novel asks the question, why shouldn't a woman be as successful as a man, and what does it take to get there? And if a woman wants to have a successful career, a happy marriage, and children... what personal sacrifices does she need to make? |
The women in this book have realized that you can't completely rely on men, ... Women have got to rely on themselves. |
They're not looking to meet Mr Big. They're looking to become Mr Big. |
This is about women trying to become their own Mr. Big for themselves. It's about the new kind of successful career women who we're seeing on the pages of Fortune magazine. |
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. |
We're comfortable with movie stars having money. We're comfortable with a woman marrying a rich guy and having money. We're not so comfortable with a woman independently working in business and making a lot of money. |
What I tried to do with the characters is put them in the same situation that powerful and successful men often find themselves, ... I'm fascinated by what it's like to be a woman in one of those powerful positions because there is really no road map about how you're supposed to behave. Just as society needs to re-evaluate our ideas about femininity and what women can do, we as women need to re-evaluate our ideas about it too. |
What Sex and the City did for sex and relationships, Lipstick Jungle does for success and power, |