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

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

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

Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.

Oh God. valentine's Day tomorrow. Why? Why? Why is (the) entire world geared to make people not involved in romance feel stupid when everyone knows romance does not work anyway. Look at (the) royal family. Look at Mum and Dad.

As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian.

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