That's when the idea for Mad About the Boy arrived. It wasn't even a Bridget [Jones] story initially - then I realized I was writing in Bridget's voice and it grew from there into a Bridget novel. Helen Fielding More Quotes by Helen Fielding More Quotes From Helen Fielding Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you. Helen Fielding darling pardon mother 9p.m. My flat. Feel very strange and empty. Is all very well thinking everything is going to be different when you come back but then it is all the same. Suppose I have to make it different. But what am I going to do with my life? I know. Will eat some cheese. Helen Fielding cheese different thinking You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside. Helen Fielding how-you-feel be-good feels When Bridget [Jones] does finally get pregnant, she 's bound to mess it up, but what I tried to show is the importance of love and kindness rather than perfection, and the importance of support from friends who help you to laugh at your mistakes and pick yourself up afterwards. Helen Fielding kindness mistake laughing 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. Helen Fielding fit realizing chocolate 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. Helen Fielding weight-loss believe years ..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'. Helen Fielding forgiving waiting feet I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing. Helen Fielding skills social men Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out? Helen Fielding work-out doe 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. Helen Fielding dying-alone balance wrestling Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status — like geisha girls do Helen Fielding accepted girl should-have But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else. Helen Fielding your-best-friend lasts want 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." Helen Fielding writing baby son 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. Helen Fielding habit knowing 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. Helen Fielding imbalance world ideas Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career. Helen Fielding bombarded-by careers should-have For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design. Helen Fielding design stories writing I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out. Helen Fielding bridget-jones finance writing In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism. Helen Fielding radical-feminism unattractive men There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person. Helen Fielding real ideas thinking
