{"id":10931,"date":"2011-10-26T12:41:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T12:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisblogrules.com\/?p=10931"},"modified":"2011-10-21T00:41:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T00:41:53","slug":"the-most-inanely-profound-sex-and-the-city-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/the-most-inanely-profound-sex-and-the-city-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Most Insightful Quotes from Sex and the City (that are rendered totally inane by the general premise of the show)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some women love it.\u00a0 Some women hate it.\u00a0 Some men think it’s great.\u00a0 Some men think it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to relationships.\u00a0 It’s Sex and the City<\/em>.\u00a0 Sarah Jessica Parker is Carrie Bradshaw, a New York author and whatever-the-shoe-version-of-bon-vivant-would-be, and she lays out some pearls of wisdom that, on any other show, would be really quite good.\u00a0 The problem is that despite the wistful voice over that speaks Carrie’s deepest thoughts at the beginning and end of each episode that leads one to believe they might actually learn something about love, life, and the pursuit of happiness, the show itself flies in the face of anything any of us could relate to, practically speaking.\u00a0 Is it because the relationships are so unlikely?\u00a0 Because Samantha is such an over-the-top slut that it makes the whole damn show unbelievable?\u00a0 Or is it because, even though Carrie cries poor a whole lot, she still manages to buy all those shoes?\u00a0\u00a0 Who knows?\u00a0 All we do know is that people like to watch the show because it takes them OUT of reality.\u00a0 So why try to give us realistic life advice?<\/p>\n

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\u201cAfter a while, you just want to be with the one that makes you laugh.\u201d<\/h2>\n

If that’s the case, she should have stayed with Berger.\u00a0 Because Aidan?\u00a0 Not exactly a laugh a minute.\u00a0 And Big…well, let’s just say Chris Noth doesn’t exactly keep us rolling.\u00a0 Actually, this quote probably came along during the Berger episodes, but since he broke up with Carrie via Post-It note (hilarious!) we’re supposed to forget this little gem.\u00a0 If she re-worded it later it should have been “After a while, you just want to be with the one who leaves you at the alter when you have a big bird pinned to your head.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don\u2019t need them anymore.\u201d<\/h2>\n

She should have applied this philosophy to her shoe habit.\u00a0 Just sayin’.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you\u2019ll never get through it without your friends.\u201d<\/h2>\n

Back to the friends thing.\u00a0 Carrie’s best friends are a misanthropic, angst-ridden lawyer, a neurotic society doll, and an over-sexed woman who may be the shallowest person alive.\u00a0 With friends like that…<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don\u2019t. But, in the end, they\u2019re the people you always come home to. Sometimes it\u2019s the family you\u2019re born into and sometimes it\u2019s the one you make for yourself.\u201d<\/h2>\n

Obviously it’s her friends that she refers to as “family,” because the character Carrie Bradshaw lives a pretty much family-less existence on the show.\u00a0 At some point it comes out that her parents split when she was five, and she may or may not have a sister.\u00a0 Her “chosen” sisters, the “family she makes for herself” are Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha.\u00a0 And, truth be told, most of the time Carrie loves Carrie more than she loves anybody else.<\/p>\n

“The universe may not always play fair, but at least it’s got a hell of a sense of humor.”<\/h2>\n

This is a truism that you might even be tempted to quote at times, like when your crush falls for your sister (or brother), when you get a parking ticket on a car that won’t start, when there’s a black fly in your Chardonnay, etc.<\/p>\n

“You have to figure … if the world’s fattest twins can find love, there’s hope for all of us. Somewhere out there is another little freak who will love us, understand us, and kiss our 3 heads and make it all better.”<\/h2>\n

Nice.\u00a0 Real deep, Carrie.\u00a0 While it’s true that love is possible for most, it’s less possible for fat twins?\u00a0 At least you admit you’re a little freak.\u00a0 Anybody who needs that many shoes is definitely a little weird.<\/p>\n

“I’m looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can’t-live-without-each-other love.”<\/h2>\n

Who isn’t?\u00a0 But it’s shows like this that totally skew young impressionable minds into thinking that their “Mr. Big” will stop his philandering ways, that Mikhail Baryshnikov is just dying to make us his love bunny.\u00a0 Maybe “calm, respectful, walk-to-the-mailbox-holding-hands” love is what we should really be looking for.<\/p>\n

“When men attempt bold gestures, generally it’s considered romantic. When women do it, it’s often considered desperate or psycho.”<\/h2>\n

Let’s face it.\u00a0 When men do it it’s called stalking.\u00a0 When women do it it’s labeled “PMS.”\u00a0 Get with the program, Carrie.<\/p>\n

“When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirits of relationships past?”<\/h2>\n

B.\u00a0 Definitely Option B.\u00a0 But most of us don’t sit around typing out philosophical crap about sex in the (what?) city when we’re really just consistently husband-hunting.\u00a0 Woman empowerment my Aunt Fanny.<\/p>\n

“Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.”<\/h2>\n

And successes.\u00a0 And almost-theres.\u00a0 And our good decisions.\u00a0 Or maybe we just want to let ourselves off the hook for our bad decisions.<\/p>\n

I guess the point is, nobody should use a TV show to gain some real truth, but in this case, you ESPECIALLY shouldn’t use Sex and the City<\/em>.\u00a0 Despite how smart Candice Bushnell makes Carrie seem sometimes.\u00a0 Cosmopolitans, limos, and shoes do not a rounded woman make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some women love it.\u00a0 Some women hate it.\u00a0 Some men think it’s great.\u00a0 Some men think it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to relationships.\u00a0 It’s Sex and the City.\u00a0 Sarah Jessica Parker is Carrie Bradshaw, a New York author and whatever-the-shoe-version-of-bon-vivant-would-be, and she lays out some pearls of wisdom that, on any other show, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[10,211],"tags":[3337,3338,712,3330,3328,3331,3332,3335,3336,3329,2056,3333,3340,3327,3339,3341,3334,3342],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","yoast_head":"\nTop 10 Most Insightful Quotes from Sex and the City (that are rendered totally inane by the general premise of the show) 2023 | This Blog Rules<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Some women love it.\u00a0 Some women hate it.\u00a0 Some men think it's great.\u00a0 Some men think it's the worst thing that's ever happened to relationships.\u00a0 It's Sex\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/the-most-inanely-profound-sex-and-the-city-quotes\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"4 minutes\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/\",\"name\":\"This Blog Rules | Why go elsewhere?\",\"description\":\"Leading Entertainment Blog and Daily Source for Fun\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/the-most-inanely-profound-sex-and-the-city-quotes\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.thisblogrules.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/sex-and-the-city.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/the-most-inanely-profound-sex-and-the-city-quotes\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/the-most-inanely-profound-sex-and-the-city-quotes\/\",\"name\":\"Top 10 Most Insightful Quotes from Sex and the City (that are rendered totally inane by the general premise of the show) 2023 | This Blog Rules\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/the-most-inanely-profound-sex-and-the-city-quotes\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-10-26T12:41:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-10-21T00:41:53+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/#\/schema\/person\/292315f075662c95590c0b250f432345\"},\"description\":\"Some women love it.\\u00a0 Some women hate it.\\u00a0 Some men think it's great.\\u00a0 Some men think it's the worst thing that's ever happened to relationships.\\u00a0 It's Sex\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/the-most-inanely-profound-sex-and-the-city-quotes\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/the-most-inanely-profound-sex-and-the-city-quotes\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/the-most-inanely-profound-sex-and-the-city-quotes\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"item\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/\",\"name\":\"Home\"}},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"item\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/the-most-inanely-profound-sex-and-the-city-quotes\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/the-most-inanely-profound-sex-and-the-city-quotes\/\",\"name\":\"Top 10 Most Insightful Quotes from Sex and the City (that are rendered totally inane by the general premise of the show)\"}}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/#\/schema\/person\/292315f075662c95590c0b250f432345\",\"name\":\"Vernon Gadson\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d00d45163899a884751d58ee9b372fc9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Vernon Gadson\"},\"description\":\"I currently live in the USA, but I learned to speak fluent Italian from my mother who grew up in Italy. 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