Bridget Jones’s Diary

by Helen Fielding

‘We women are only vulnerable because we are a pioneer generation daring to refuse to compromise in love and relying on our own economic power. In twenty years’

I am going to cancel and spend the evening eating doughnuts in a cardigan with egg on it.

Our culture is too obsessed with outward appearance, age and status. Love is what matters.

Oh God. Do not want to go to scary party. Want to stay home with bottle of wine and watch EastEnders.

‘I’m thinking Hugh Grant.

This is so funny when hugh grant plays daniel cleaver in the film

Also you dress for summer, then it’s freezing cold and you have to teeter shivering for miles up cobblestone precipices thinking everyone else is at a big party.

There is no reason why I should go. I am not a close friend or relation, and would have to miss both Blind Date and Casualty.

Bridget jones is so me fr

Mind you, if I’d been married

to Mum for thirty-nine years I’d have had a nervous breakdown,

Starting to feel really panicky, at the same time enjoying sense of being at centre of drama.

‘I know we’re all psychotic, single and completely dysfunctional and it’s all done over the phone,’ Tom slurred sentimentally, ‘but it’s a bit like a family, isn’t it?’

‘Let go of me, you silly billy,’

But we always get presents from Santa in sacks at the bottom of our beds. World seems bleak and grey. Won’t seem like Christmas any more.