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Helen Fielding Biography

Helen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, and a sequence of novels and films beginning with the life of a thirtysomething singleton in London trying to make sense of life and love. Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (1999) were published in 40 countries and sold more than 15 million copies. The two films of the same name achieved international success. In a survey conducted by The Guardian newspaper, Bridget Jones’s Diary was named as one of the ten novels that best defined the 20th century.

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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].

Baby, Frenzy, Long, Using, Writing

Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.

Valentine, Cynical, Matter, Commercial, Indifference

As Bridget writes to her son, in Bridget Jones' Baby - "if you just keep calm and keep your spirits up, things have a habit of turning out all right, just as they did for me. "

Baby, Jones, Son, Turning, Writing

Nobody wants to be racist and I think that most people aren't.

Thinking, People, Racist, Nobody, Think

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.

Bombarded By, Careers, Messages, Should Have, Today, Women

In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism.

Men, Nothing, Radical, Radical Feminism, Unattractive

In terms of parenthood, I think the pressure has amped up massively too. Some parents are setting the bar ludicrously high in terms of doing things "right," and seeing children more as products to be perfected than simply children.

Amped, Children, Parent, Parents, Pressure, Thinking

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.

Celibate, Days, Ends, Fallback, Order, People

Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you.

Darling, Mother, Pardon, Tells

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 idea 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.

Believe, Completely, Reason, Spent, Weight Loss, Years

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.

Alluringness, Confirm, Heart, Relationship, Sex

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.

Ahead, Entire, Fun, Lonely, Pudding, Weekend

With so many dark things to worry about in the world right now, I hope people will just go with the fun and enjoy [ Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].

Baby, Dark, Fun, Right

I hate Christmas. Everything is designed for families, romance, warmth, emotion and presents, and if you have no boyfriend, no money, your mother is going out with a missing Portuguese criminal and your friends don't want to be your friend anymore, it makes you want to emigrate to a vicious Muslim regime, where at least all the women are treated like social outcasts. Anyway, I don't care. I am going to quietly read a book all weekend and listen to classical music.

Book, Care, Friends, Hate, Mother, Music

More than two years after Mad About the Boy was published, the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries ] movie started coming together. I felt better about the material, and found myself writing a letter from Bridget to her son: explaining the original story of how he came to be, from his own Mum.

Baby, Coming, Diaries, Material, Son, Writing

Of course the chronology of the books is a bit back- to - front, and books usually come out before movies. But happily, these [Bridget Jones's] are fictional comedy diaries - not a history of the Battle of Waterloo.

Battle, Book, Come, Diaries, Fictional

It is horrid to smirk.

Smirk, Horrid

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.

Chocolate, Diet, Fit, Mixed, Realizing

If you ask where a relationship is going too often the question has a habit of turning into where the relationship went. Unfortunately, however, God has given women an inbuilt irresistible urge to insist on knowing where their relationships are going, and to force their partners to discuss the matter at length whenever they are late for something.

Given, Habit, Insist, Knowing, Length, Matter

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.

Compromising, Ideas, Imbalance, Necessary, Process, World

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