Quotes By Sarah Jessica Parker

We all live in a time where we're supposed to have choices and how do we wrangle that and how do we make the best choices for ourselves and our families. It has nothing to do with feminism.

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.

I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.

I remember when I came home from the hospital after having my son, I wore a Narciso Rodriguez black coat. Then, I was using this fragrance that I had created. I walk by that coat, and it still smells like that fragrance. It takes you right there.

When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky.

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.

I'm less Pollyanna now. That's probably healthy.

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

Balls are to men what purses are to women.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Do we need distance to get close?

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.

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.

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

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

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

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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