Helen Fielding Quotations

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

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

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

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.

You'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz.

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.

Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?

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.

Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.

Eventually, I manage to cheer Mum up by allowing her to go through my wardrobe and criticize all my clothes...