Helen Fielding Quotes

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell’s body and Madeleine Albright’s career.

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.

The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you’ve put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don’t do that now.

Nobody wants to be racist and I think that most people aren’t.

My books have all generated controversy.

It is horrid to smirk.