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

Helen Fielding

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Helen Fielding
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 19
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I realize it has become too easy to find a diet to fit in with whatever you happen to feel like eating and that diets are not there to be picked and mixed but picked and stuck to, which is exactly what I shall begin to do once I've eaten this chocolate croissant.
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It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting Cathy and banging your head against a tree.
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9p.m. My flat. Feel very strange and empty. Is all very well thinking everything is going to be different when you come back but then it is all the same. Suppose I have to make it different. But what am I going to do with my life? I know. Will eat some cheese.
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Bridget Jones' Baby, at heart is about the gap between how you expect life to turn out and how it actually does.
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..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.
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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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When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart.
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You'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz.
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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.
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Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?
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