Candace Bushnell on Sex and the City, how women see themselves, and smashing preconceptions
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
It's no exaggeration to say that today's guest help redefine how an entire generation of women saw themselves, their aspirations and their sexuality. It's the author of Sex and the City and tons of other bestsellers books, Candace Bushnell!
Candace dials in from New York City ahead of her one-woman show's UK debut to discuss how, through her writing, she came to redefine how women saw themselves. Of course, there's also plenty of time for a chat about Sex and the City and the crossover between her life and the lives of Carrie, Samantha, Mr. Big et al.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of White Line Question Time. |
| 0:06.0 | It's like in the 90s, there weren't supposed to be any single women in their 30s. |
| 0:12.0 | If you were a single woman in your 30s, people were really |
| 0:17.0 | convinced that there was something wrong with you. |
| 0:30.3 | And the reality is I know so many women who are my age who meet somebody and they fall in love and they're happier than they've ever been before. |
| 0:34.0 | And you know, like the new thing is the 70-something wedding. |
| 0:39.0 | Is it? |
| 0:40.0 | It's amazing. For example, like you broke up with Ron who was your Mr. Big when you pretty much |
| 0:51.1 | actually he broke up with me. Oh did he? |
| 0:54.0 | Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time, the |
| 0:59.3 | podcast had asked its guest three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine. And my guest today |
| 1:05.2 | is a woman who 30 years ago provided the voice to a cultural phenomenon and redefined |
| 1:10.0 | how a generation of women saw themselves, their friendships, their success, and ultimately their |
| 1:14.7 | sexuality. |
| 1:15.7 | In a word, she rewrote 30-something women in the 90s and fun-washed being single to the point of making it aspirational. |
| 1:24.1 | Raised in rural Connecticut alongside two younger sisters she was born to a rocket |
| 1:28.7 | scientist dad, true story, and a travel agent mom and dropped out of university at 19 to move to New York |
| 1:34.3 | with just $20 in her pocket and ambitions of becoming an actor. Soon after the |
| 1:38.9 | move though her sights quickly turned to journalism and New York in the 90s became her storyboard. |
| 1:44.8 | Sofer surfing and struggling to get by, she started to claw a living as a writer, |
| 1:48.8 | working for some of New York's best titles. |
| 1:51.2 | And in 1994, managed to land a weekly column with a New York observer called |
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