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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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Helen Fielding
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 19
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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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You'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz.
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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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