Candace Bushnell said she always showed what she'd written to the real Mr. Big. 'I was like, here, I've written about you. I'm calling you Mr. Big. And his response was, 'Cute baby, cute.' I'm still friends with him today'
Bushnell’s voice made Sex and the City a cultural phenomenon, and shaped how generations of women think about friendship, fashion, and—yes—sex.
By exploring the complex dynamics of sex and power for the better part of 40 years, Bushnell has shifted cultural attitudes about what it means to be a modern woman. Her work fundamentally changed how women see themselves and gave us all a new vision of feminism. For me, when I was growing up in the early 2000s, Charlotte, Miranda, Samantha and Carrie seemed like the four avatars of adult womanhood. And thanks to Bushnell, everyone wanted to be Carrie.
You know, it’s like women, you’re not really supposed to have any sexuality or feelings of your own. They’re all in service to using your sexuality, to have access to the income stream. I feel like that’s really what I write about is sex, money, power: who has it, how it affects us, as women, in terms of what we can do, who we think that we are, all of it.There were people on the sidewalks handing out flyers like, ‘come to this party.’ I don’t know if you ever sawwith Griffin Dunn.
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