Charlotte Sex And The City Quotes

But in finding meaning, Reese would argue--despite the changes wrought by feminism--women still found themselves with only four major options to save themselves, options represented by the story arcs of the four female characters of Sex in the City. Find a partner, and be a Charlotte. Have a career, and be a Samantha. Have a baby, and be a Miranda. Or finally, express oneself in art or writing, and be a Carrie. Every generation of women reinvented this formula over and over, Reese believed, blending it and twisting it, but never quite escaping it.

McLennan worked a lot with Ashley Dupré, a fact she plays up from the start of her book, The Price: My Rise and Fall as Natalia, New York’s #1 Escort. Ashley is described as young and guileless, not a savvy schemer like McLennan; her secret is that she has “the glow,” and “a near-perfect body” including a “beautiful coochie” that would make her the city’s next escort phenomenon.

But I am critical of any ideology that fails to balance freedom against other values, and I’m also critical of the failure of liberal feminism to interrogate where our desire for a certain type of freedom comes from, too often referring back to a circular logic by which a woman’s choices are good because she chooses them, just like Sex and the City’s Charlotte York yelping ‘I choose my choice, I choose my choice!

It’s like Charlotte says in Sex and the City—‘Maybe we can be each other’s soul mates. And then we can let men be these great nice guys to have fun with.