Quotes on Carrie:

1. Carrie: The things ya gotta do in the name of research.
2. Carrie: I had begun to realize that being beautiful is like having a rent-controlled apartment overlooking the park: completely unfair and usually bestowed upon those who deserve it least. [later] I take that back. Beauty is fleeting. But a rent-controlled apartment overlooking the park is forever.

Carrie: What exactly about me screams, "Whore!"?
Miranda: Besides the $1000 on the end table?

Miranda: She's not gonna have sex, she's gonna look like sex.

Carrie: The truth was, I was dying to sleep with him. But isn't delayed gratification the definition of maturity?

Carrie: So I did what any writer would do--I pulled an idea out of my ass.

Carrie's supporting cast includes her three best friends: Miranda, a lawyer, Charlotte, a gallery proprieter, and Samantha, who owns her own PR firm. The four of them are so different that it makes for great conversation about men, dating, sex, etc.

Quotes on Miranda:

Carrie: Miranda was going to hate Skipper. She'd think he was mocking her with his sweet nature and decide he was an ass.
Charlotte: I just know that no matter how good I feel about myself, if I see Christy Turlington I just want to give up.
Miranda: Well I just want to tie her down and force-feed her lard, but that's the difference between you and me.

Charlotte: So are we going to stick around and catch the bouquet?
Miranda: That is so not going to happen.

[baby shower]
Miranda: You could not drag me to that thing if you put a grappling hook in my mouth.

Quotes on Charlotte:

Carrie: Charlotte treated marriage like a sorority she was desperate to pledge.
Carrie: Some people read palms. Charlotte read real estate.

Carrie: She'll juggle, she'll spin plates, but she won't give it up.

Carrie: The closest Charlotte had ever come to getting screwed on a plane was the time she lost all her luggage on a flight to Palm Beach.

Carrie: Charlotte hadn't been that excited since she tried on her JV cheerleading uniform.

Carrie: That was the thing about Charlotte: just when you were about to write her off as a Park Avenue Pollyanna, she'd say something so right on you'd swear she was the Dalai Lama.
Charlotte: Do you think my hair is too shiny today?
Carrie: And then she'd say something else.