Bridget Jones’s Diary

by Helen Fielding

It is OK to be a girl like you.

the greatest way to live your life – the greatest power you have – is not to be thin, or in love, or in good shoes, or rich. It is to be funny.’

After all, there is nothing so unattractive to a man as strident feminism.

I had resolved totally to detach myself from Daniel but then he appeared looking unnervingly sexy and started making everyone laugh so that I went all to pieces.

I shall be poised and cool and remember that I am a woman of substance and do not need men in order to be complete, especially not him.

I love girls.

I know what her secret is: she’s discovered power.

it was inhuman to leave a woman hanging in air for two weekends after sex and an appalling breach of confidence

‘Oh, but Mum, I have to work with Daniel, I—’ ‘Darling – wrong way round. He has to work with you. Give him hell, baby.’