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Helen Fielding QUOTES

1 " Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him. "

― Helen Fielding , Bridget Jones's Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)

2 " When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stamped REJECT by the one you love. How can you not be left with the personal confidence of a passed over British Rail sandwich? "

― Helen Fielding , Bridget Jones's Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)

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

― Helen Fielding , Bridget Jones's Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)

4 " 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. "

― Helen Fielding , Bridget Jones's Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)

5 " The point is you are supposed to vote for the principle of the thing, not the itsy-bitsy detail about this percent and that percent. "

― Helen Fielding , Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Bridget Jones, #2)

6 " the nation's young men have
been proved by surveys to be completely unmarriageable, and as a result there's a whole
generation of single girls like me with their own incomes and homes who have lots of fun and
don't need to wash anyone else's socks. "

― Helen Fielding , Bridget Jones's Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)

7 " 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. "

― Helen Fielding , Bridget Jones's Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)

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

― Helen Fielding , Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination

9 " Resolution number one: Obviously will lose twenty pounds. Number two: Always put last night's panties in the laundry basket. Equally important, will find sensible boyfriend to go out with and not continue to form romantic attachments to any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobic's, peeping toms, megalomaniacs, emotional fuckwits or perverts. And especially will not fantasize about a particular person who embodies all these things "

― Helen Fielding , Bridget Jones's Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)

10 " One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to say the words 'time apart', 'serious talk' or 'maybe you...' and you're never going to see them again and will have to spend the next six months having imaginary conversations in which they beg to come back, and bursting into tears at the sight of their toothbrush. "

― Helen Fielding , Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Bridget Jones, #2)

11 " 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 ideal 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. "

― Helen Fielding , Bridget Jones's Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)

12 " Rules for Living by Olivia Joules

14) Sometimes you just have to go with the flow.

and then the new one from Elsie, added at the bottom:

15) Don't regret anything. Remember there wasn't anything else that could have happened, given who you were and the state of the world at that moment. The only thing you can change is the present, so learn from the past. "

― Helen Fielding , Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination

13 " I began to think I quite liked her really. It's always so nice to meet someone more badly behaved than oneself. "

― Helen Fielding , Mad About the Boy (Bridget Jones, #3)

14 " Why, when people are leaving their partners because they're having an affair with someone else, do they think it will seem better to pretend there is no one else involved? Do they think it will be less hurtful for their partners to think they just walked out because they couldn't stand them any more and then had the good fortune to meet some tall Omar Sharif-figure with a gentleman's handbag two weeks afterwards while the ex-partner is spending his evenings bursting into tears at the sight of the toothbrush mug? It's like those people who invent a lie as an excuse rather than the truth, even when the truth is better than the lie. "

― Helen Fielding , Bridget Jones's Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)

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

― Helen Fielding , Mad About the Boy (Bridget Jones, #3)

16 " Is the whole world doomed to emotional trauma? "

― Helen Fielding , Bridget Jones's Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)

17 " I mean, I haven't rushed to the answerphone once to see if anyone's aware of my existence in the world! "

― Helen Fielding , Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Bridget Jones, #2)

18 " It's all chop-change chop-change with you. Either go out with me and treat me nicely, or leave me alone. As I say, I am not interested in fuckwittage. "

― Helen Fielding , Bridget Jones's Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)

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

― Helen Fielding

20 " Being a woman is worse than being a farmer there is so much harvesting and crop spraying to be done: legs to be waxed, underarms shaved, eyebrows plucked, feet pumiced, skin exfoliated and moisturised, spots cleansed, roots dyed, eyelashes tinted, nails filed, cellulite massaged, stomach muscles exercised.

The whole performance is so highly tuned you only need to neglect it for a few days for the whole thing to go to seed. Sometimes I wonder what I would be like if left to revert to nature — with a full beard and handlebar moustache on each shin Dennis Healey eyebrows face a graveyard of dead skin cells spots erupting long curly fingernails like Struwelpeter blind as bat and stupid runt of species as no contact lenses flabby body flobbering around. Ugh ugh. Is it any wonder girls have no confidence? "

― Helen Fielding , Bridget Jones's Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)