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..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.
Helen Fielding
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Helen Fielding
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 19
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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.
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Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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It is horrid to smirk.
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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].
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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.
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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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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.
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Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?
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