Bridget [Jones] was always, at heart, about the gap between how you feel you're expected to be and how you actually are and that gap has only widened. Young people now are entering an uncharted sea, where there's huge pressure to judge yourself on how many Likes or Followers you get on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, rather than the on important things like being kind, honest, resilient, funny and a good friend.

I like you very much. Just as you are.

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.

I will not Drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week.

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.

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

I will not get upset over men, but instead be poised and cool ice-queen.