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

  Helen Fielding

  Men, Radical Feminism, Unattractive

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• I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that you might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of my consciousness. Have reached point where believe nutritional idea is to eat nothing at all, and that the only reason people eat is because they are so greedy they cannot stop themselves from breaking out and ruining their diets.

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  Believe, Weight Loss, Years

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.155, Pan Macmillan

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

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  Work Out, Doe

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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• The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.

  Helen Fielding

  Writing, People, Diaries

  "Chat with author Helen Fielding". Live chat, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2000.

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

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  Cheer, Clothes, Criticize

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• Bridget [Jones] was always, at heart, about the gap between how you feel you're expected to be and how you actually are and that gap has only widened. Young people now are entering an uncharted sea, where there's huge pressure to judge yourself on how many Likes or Followers you get on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, rather than the on important things like being kind, honest, resilient, funny and a good friend.

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  Heart, Good Friend, Sea

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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

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  Mother, Pardon, Darling

  Helen Fielding (2016). “Bridget Jones's Diary: Picador Classic”, p.190, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Thinking, People, Age

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

  Helen Fielding

  Alcohol, Drink, Week

  Bridget Jones's Diary "New Year's Resolutions" (1996)

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• 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.

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  Important, Stories, Way

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• My books have all generated controversy.

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  Book, Controversy

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

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  Serious, Comedy, Painful

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• I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body is up to it if left to its own devices. I can't take the pressure.

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  Children, Personality, Culture

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.40, Pan Macmillan

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

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  Taken, Writing, Thinking

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• Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.

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  New Year, Hangover, Thinking

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

  Helen Fielding

  Book, Hands, Research

  "Chat with author Helen Fielding". Live chat, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2000.

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

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  Life, Fall, Alaska

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• As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian.

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  Wrestling, Dying Alone, Balance

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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

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  Looks, Like You, Auschwitz

  "Bridget Jones's Diary". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.

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  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Dumped Bridget, wrote spy novel". Interview with John Walsh, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2003.

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• I like L.A. It's like a mini break. For a writer, it's hilarious. Like the food. Where I come from, we eat chip sandwiches: white bread, butter, tomato catsup and big fat french fries. It's delicious. Here, you order a creme caramel and the waiter says, 'You know, that contains dairy.

  Helen Fielding

  Order, White, Tomatoes

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

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  Valentine, Cynical, Matter

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.34, Pan Macmillan

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

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  Should Have, Careers, Bombarded By

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

  Helen Fielding

  Thinking, People, Racist

  "Dumped Bridget, wrote spy novel". Interview with John Walsh, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2003.

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• Oh God. valentine's Day tomorrow. Why? Why? Why is (the) entire world geared to make people not involved in romance feel stupid when everyone knows romance does not work anyway. Look at (the) royal family. Look at Mum and Dad.

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  Dad, Stupid, Valentine

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