Helen Fielding
Helen Fielding
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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth19 February 1958
Helen Fielding quotes about
children winter air
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.
war pride men
The corruption of the good by the belief in their own infallible goodnes is the most bloody dangerous pitfall in the human spectrum. Once you have conquered all your sins, pride is the one which will conquer you. A man starts off deciding he is a good man because he makes good decisions. Next thing, he's convinced that whatever decision he makes must be good because he's a good man. Most of the wars in the world are caused by people who think they have god on their side. Always stick with people who know they are flawed and ridiculous.
morning teenage lying
It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas, with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one wholly against one's will, then rudely snatched away just when one is starting to get into it. Was really beginning to enjoy the feeling that normal service was suspended and it was OK to lie in bed as long as you want, put anything you fancy into your mouth, and drink alcohol whenever it should chance to pass your way, even in the mornings. Now suddenly we are all supposed to snap into self-discipline like lean teenage greyhounds.
pride loss reflection
Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss
men substance oneself
One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.
parent freak single-women
Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.
feet waiting forgiving
..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.
wrestling dying-alone balance
As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian.
men skills social
I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.
looks like-you auschwitz
You'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz.
work-out doe
Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?
dad stupid valentine
Oh God. valentine's Day tomorrow. Why? Why? Why is (the) entire world geared to make people not involved in romance feel stupid when everyone knows romance does not work anyway. Look at (the) royal family. Look at Mum and Dad.
lasts want your-best-friend
But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.
life fall alaska
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.