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Helen Fielding
4 quotes
“I think that if you're not a fan of irony as a form of expression, then a book that contains the line, "There's nothing so unattractive to a man as strident feminism" is going to make you cross. I also think that if we can't have a comic female character, if we can't laugh at ourselves without having a panic attack about what it says about women, we haven't got very far with our equality.”
Helen Fielding (born 1958) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed by Viv Groskop, as cited in "Bridget Jones: older, yes, but still mad about the boys", The Observer (2 June 2013)
“I never imagined it would last more than a few weeks. I didn’t tell any of my colleagues it was me who was writing Bridget. I was working alongside a lot of very clever, seasoned journalists who were writing about New Labour and Chechnya and I felt stupid writing about calories and alcohol units and why it takes three hours between waking up and leaving the house in the morning, Then we started getting letters praising the column, I started boasting, "It's by me, meeeee!" and things snowballed from there.”
Helen Fielding (born 1958) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I was working for The Independent when I started writing Bridget Jones", The Independent (26 March 2016)
“The jokes in Bridget come from something quite painful, which was her perception that she was in her thirties and she'd somehow made a mistake by not getting married yet and there's this ticking clock. But also there were good reasons why she was still single.”
Helen Fielding (born 1958) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed by Hadley Freeman, as cited in "Helen Fielding: 'I'm very protective of Bridget Jones'", The Sunday Times (18 August 2024)
“I really wanted to smash the idea with this movie that there's a sexual sell-by-date for women and not for men, and stick it to the awful cougar stereotype. It makes me think of a woman in animal print leering over a friend of my son's, going, "Do you want a sherry, darling?" [...] It's got to stop because it's really not reflecting what's happening. For years and years we've seen Hollywood show men 40 years older than their partners, and it's not even discussed. Now movies are finally exploring a desire between younger men and older women that's reciprocal, not transactional. Bridget and Roxster both see something they want in each other — and Bridget having sex and being sexy is to be celebrated.”
Helen Fielding (born 1958) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed by Julia Llewellyn Smith, as cited in "Helen Fielding: 'I want Bridget Jones to smash the idea of a sexual sell-by date'", The Sunday Times (9 February 2025).