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As much as we hate the saying that “love will find you when you’re not looking,” that whole “helpless despair” vibe really isn’t doing you any favors.

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Sex and the City made waves in our society and will continue to do so for the generations of women (and men) to come.

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“That there’s something wrong with us. When men are single, they’re ‘bachelors’. When women are single, we’re ‘spinsters’. Wow, society! You’ve sucked once again!”

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Before moving to the city, I was looking forward to sipping cosmos, falling in love, and solving my romantic-comedy life with ‘what would Carrie Bradshaw do?’ Boy was I wrong.

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As you become a woman, don’t ever let anyone silence your voice. It is the one thing you will always own and the one thing no one can ever take away from you.

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“He was like the flesh and blood equivalent of a DKNY dress…. you know it’s not your style, but it’s right there, so you try it on anyway.”

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No one woman’s words changed my life as much as Joni Mitchell.

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I still remember that blinding rush of adrenaline. Those wicked giggles we whispered as we turned our smug grins to Park Avenue’s midnight sky and lit our treasure. How we felt every bit as glamorous as we’d anticipated. How we felt like movie stars.