Helen Fielding Quotes

It is horrid to smirk.

When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart.

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

I like you very much. Just as you are.

It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.

I made my excuses and left, thinking, really, after a certain age, people are just going to do what they're going to do and you're either going to accept them as they are or you're not.

If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.

If the stories don't come from the inside out, then Bridget [Jones] is not being true to herself and it's very important to me that she stays that way.

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping.

Though with Bridget Jones's Baby: the Diaries, I'd like to make it clear that I did not ever get pregnant by two men.

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.

Oh, God, I'm so lonely. An entire weekend streching ahead with no one to love or have fun with. Anyway, I don't care. I've got a lovely steamed ginger pudding from M&S to put in the microwave.

In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism.

I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.

Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?

I will not get upset over men, but instead be poised and cool ice-queen.

I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.

I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.

Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status — like geisha girls do

You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.

As Bridget writes to her son, in Bridget Jones' Baby - "if you just keep calm and keep your spirits up, things have a habit of turning out all right, just as they did for me."

Exes should never, never go out with or marry other people but should remain celibate to the end of their days in order to provide you with a mental fallback position.

But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.

I think the pressure to be perfect generally in life has amped up massively in the last twenty years: especially for young people with the advent of social media.

Bridget Jones' Baby, at heart is about the gap between how you expect life to turn out and how it actually does.

I'd been working on the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries material] for years, first, in the Independent newspaper columns and then in the various versions of the movie scripts.

I tend to take [ to Bridget Jones Diaries] something that nearly happened, or might have happened, and then exaggerate it to make it funny and to make it tie into the themes.

With most of the events in the books [ Bridget Jones Diaries ] I draw a little bit from my own life and some from what I see happening around me.

For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.

That's when the idea for Mad About the Boy arrived. It wasn't even a Bridget [Jones] story initially - then I realized I was writing in Bridget's voice and it grew from there into a Bridget novel.

I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into a little novel [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].

With so many dark things to worry about in the world right now, I hope people will just go with the fun and enjoy [ Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].

Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.

I am brave, though I am alone.

Eventually, I manage to cheer Mum up by allowing her to go through my wardrobe and criticize all my clothes.

My books have all generated controversy.

I will not Drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week.

Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you.

I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.

I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already.

Nobody wants to be racist and I think that most people aren't.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

You'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz.

..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.