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

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

I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping.

Of course the chronology of the books is a bit back- to - front, and books usually come out before movies. But happily, these [Bridget Jones's] are fictional comedy diaries - not a history of the Battle of Waterloo.

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

That's when the idea for Mad About the Boy arrived. It wasn't even a Bridget [Jones] story initially - then I realized I was writing in Bridget's voice and it grew from there into a Bridget novel.

In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism.