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

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.

One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to say the words 'time apart', 'serious talk' or 'maybe you...' and you're never going to see them again and will have to spend the next six months having imaginary conversations in which they beg to come back, and bursting into tears at the sight of their toothbrush.

Though with Bridget Jones's Baby: the Diaries, I'd like to make it clear that I did not ever get pregnant by two men.

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

Eventually, I manage to cheer Mum up by allowing her to go through my wardrobe and criticize all my clothes.

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