For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

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

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

I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.

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.

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.