It's really about the challenges, dreams and fears of contemporary, modern women.

It was like time began to reverse, and somehow they managed to look better and younger-looking than they had in their thirties,

Since I had to write every week, I knew the column had to be about something I know.

We're comfortable with movie stars having money. We're comfortable with a woman marrying a rich guy and having money. We're not so comfortable with a woman independently working in business and making a lot of money.

When I started writing 'Sex and the City,' I was writing about women I knew in New York who were in their 30s. In a way, this is the women I was writing about in 'Sex and the City' 10 years later. They're more grown-up, more established. They've found their ways,

I was all excited. I'd been writing for women's magazines and felt marginalized. No one takes you seriously.