“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

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