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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 and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason 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.Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy was published in autumn 2013 with record-breaking first-day sales in the UK exceeding 46,000 copies. It occupied the number one spot on The Sunday Times bestseller list for six months. In her review for The New York Times review, Sarah Lyall called the novel "sharp and humorous" and said that Fielding had "allowed her heroine to grow up into someone funnier and more interesting than she was before". Late 2016 saw the release of the third movie: Bridget Jones's Baby. On 11 October 2016, and the publication of Fielding's sixth novel, Bridget Jones' Baby: the Diaries based on Fielding's original columns in The Independent newspaper on which the movie — which broke UK box office records — was based.In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Fielding was named the 29th most influential person in British culture. In December 2016, the BBC's Woman's Hour included Bridget Jones as one of the seven women who had most influenced British female culture over the last seven decades.



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✵ 19. February 1958  •  Other names 헬렌 필딩
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Famous Helen Fielding Quotes

“That is such crap. How dare you be so fraudulently flirtatious, cowardly and dysfunctional? I am not interested in emotional fuckwittage. Goodbye.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

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

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

“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.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

“But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

Helen Fielding Quotes about love

“When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart…”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

“It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

“Come on, let's get you a drink. How's your love life, anyway?

Oh God. Why can't married people understand that this is no longer a polite question to ask? We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, "How's your marriage going? Still have sex?”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

Helen Fielding Quotes

“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.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

“I will not fall for any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobics, people with girlfriends or wives, misogynists, megalomanics, chauvists, emotional fuckwits or freeloaders, perverts.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

“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.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

“I like you very much. Just as you are.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

“I will not get upset over men, but instead be poised and cool ice-queen.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

“Thank you, Daniel, that is very good to know. But if staying here means working within 10 yards of you, frankly, I'd rather have a job wiping Saddam Hussein's arse.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

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

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

“I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

“Emotional fuckwittage”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Variant: I am not interested in emotional fuckwittage.
Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

“I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body is up to it if left to its own devices. I can't take the pressure.”

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“Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

“One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

“.. we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

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