Quotes By Sarah Jessica Parker

Balls are to men what purses are to women.

My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.

I'm aware of people's association with me and fashion and I certainly take that role on for some occasions, but it doesn't dominate my thoughts all the time.

I still like getting dressed up and having the opportunity to borrow beautiful dresses, but as a mother - and as somebody who's schedule isn't always my own - I don't shop a lot, or think about clothes a lot.

Do we need distance to get close?

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?

It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school.

I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known.

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet.

I wouldn't know how to be on Facebook if my life depended on it.

I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.

I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.

Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself.

I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.

If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong.

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.

As a woman, I have an inherent need to be all things to all people, to make certain everybody's taken care of. I know I can't sustain that level all the time, so I'm finding the proper balance and it's made me infinitely happier.

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit.

One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?