Quotes By Sarah Jessica Parker

I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.

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.

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

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

The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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