Helen Fielding

It is horrid to smirk.

— Helen Fielding

I like you very much. Just as you are.

— Helen Fielding

My books have all generated controversy.

— Helen Fielding

“You can't be ironic about dead people.”

— Helen Fielding

I am brave, though I am alone.

— Helen Fielding

“NO MANDES MENSAJES CUANDO ESTÉS BORRACHA”

— Helen Fielding

“Where is the tuna? Where? Where?”

— Helen Fielding

“Girls are so much nicer than men (apart from Tom-but homosexual).”

— Helen Fielding

“Bet I will become known as brilliant cook and hostess”

— Helen Fielding

“When he's hot, he's hot; when he's not, he's not. But at least there is always food”

— Helen Fielding

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

— Helen Fielding

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

— Helen Fielding

“One has to be in control, otherwise the whole dynamic becomes a total disaster.”

— Helen Fielding

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

— Helen Fielding

I like you very much. Just as you are." Mark Darcy, Bridget Jones

— Helen Fielding

“As Oscar Wilde says, thirty-five is the perfect age for a woman, so much so that many women have decided to adopt…

— Helen Fielding

“Should Never,Ever have got involved with Men again. Had completely forgotten the nightmare of 'Why hasn't he called”

— Helen Fielding

“You only get one life. I've just made a decision to change things a bit and spend what's left of mine looking…

— Helen Fielding

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

— Helen Fielding

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

— Helen Fielding

“But the thing about having kids is: you can’t go to pieces; you just have to keep going.”

— Helen Fielding

“The worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end , the whole sum of parts which adds…

— Helen Fielding

“I will not be defeated by a bad man and an American stick insect...instead I choose Chaka Khan...and vodka... Bridget Jones”

— Helen Fielding

“Went to Jude's party tonight in a tight little black dress to show off figure feeling v. full of myself... ... There's…

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“A woman has her needs. What good is a mother to her poor children if she's suffering from low self-esteem and sexual…

— Helen Fielding

I realize it has become too easy to find a diet to fit in with whatever you happen to feel like eating…

— Helen Fielding

That's when the idea for Mad About the Boy arrived. It wasn't even a Bridget [Jones] story initially - then I realized…

— Helen Fielding

As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose…

— Helen Fielding

In terms of parenthood, I think the pressure has amped up massively too. Some parents are setting the bar ludicrously high in…

— Helen Fielding

“barometer of success in later life is not that they always win, but how they deal with failure. An ability to pick…

— Helen Fielding

If you ask where a relationship is going too often the question has a habit of turning into where the relationship went.…

— Helen Fielding

The corruption of the good by the belief in their own infallible goodnes is the most bloody dangerous pitfall in the human…

— Helen Fielding

I hate Christmas. Everything is designed for families, romance, warmth, emotion and presents, and if you have no boyfriend, no money, your…

— Helen Fielding

“The basis of my own addiction, I know, is my simple human need for Darcy to get off with Elizabeth. Tom says…

— Helen Fielding

When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and…

— Helen Fielding

“Junction nineteen! Una, she came off at Junction nineteen! You've added an hour to your journey before you even started. Come on,…

— Helen Fielding

Bridget [Jones] was always, at heart, about the gap between how you feel you're expected to be and how you actually are…

— Helen Fielding

“I explained my whole theory about parenting being better if it was like a large Italian family having dinner under a tree…

— Helen Fielding

“Ugh. Would that Christmas could just be , without presents. It is just so stupid, everyone exhausting themselves, miserably haemorrhaging money on…

— Helen Fielding

“Work — once merely an annoying nuisance — has become an agonizing torture.”

— Helen Fielding