Helen Fielding Short Quotes

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

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

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Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you.

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When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart...

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No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

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It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

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Head is full of moony fantasies about…being trendy Smug Married instead of sheepish Singleton.

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One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

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Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.

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

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You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.

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It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.

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But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.

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Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status — like geisha girls do

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Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

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Exes should never, never go out with or marry other people but should remain celibate to the end of their days in order to provide you with a mental fallback position.

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Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

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I will not…sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.

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I made my excuses and left, thinking, really, after a certain age, people are just going to do what they're going to do and you're either going to accept them as they are or you're not.

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Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.

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