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I am brave, though I am alone.

Helen Fielding

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Helen Fielding
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 19
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Morley
Leeds
Brave
Alone
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Quite quickly I grew less deranged. I had begun the process of calming down, assimilating and compromising, which is necessary to live comfortably in the world as it is, and probably is why its imbalance never changes. But underneath, my idea of life was completely altered.
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I'd been working on the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries material] for years, first, in the Independent newspaper columns and then in the various versions of the movie scripts.
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In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism.
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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.
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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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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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..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.
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It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.
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Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?
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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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There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person.
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But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.
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It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.
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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 will not Drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week.
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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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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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Reminded of favorite poem by Wendy Cope which goes: At Christmas little children sing and merry bells jingle. The cold winter air makes our hands and faces tingle. And happy families go to church and cheerily they mingle, And the whole business is unbelievably dreadful if you're single.
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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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