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

I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body is up to it if left to its own devices. I can't take the pressure.

I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into a little novel [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].

Bridget Jones' Baby, at heart is about the gap between how you expect life to turn out and how it actually does.

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

You'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz.

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.