#helen fielding

[adaptationsdaily]

You once said you liked me just as I am and I just wanted to say likewise. I mean there are stupid things your mum buys you, tonight's another... classic. You're haughty, and you always say the wrong thing in every situation and I seriously believe that you should rethink the length of your sideburns. But, you're a nice man and I like you. If you wanted to pop by some time that might be nice... more than nice.

BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY (2001) dir. Sharon Maguire

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[stargir1z]

"feminism" chapter by helen fielding in the routledge companion to phenomenology

#helen fielding #judith butler #on phenomenology #on performativity #words #my uploads

[addictivecontradiction]

Bridget Jones's diary, 2001

#comedy #drama #romance #bridget jones's diary #sharon maguire #helen fielding #andrew davies #richard curtis #renée zellweger #colin firth #james callis #shirley henderson #sally phillips #celebration

[amazingaa]

"É uma verdade universalmente conhecida que quando uma parte da sua vida está indo bem, outra desmorona em pedaços”

— O Diário de Bridget Jones, de Helen Fielding

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[chickflickswithgabbyandamy]

Season 1, Episode 4 | Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)

It's a new year and we're back with the absolute charm bomb that is Bridget Jones's Diary. With a plot knicked from Pride & Prejudice, a perfect cast, and a main character who embodies the complexities and inanities of modern womanhood, this movie reminds you that you're lovable, just as you are.

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[autumncottageattic]

Favourite quotes from Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) & Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (1999), just finished re-reading them😄

It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting 'Cathy' and banging your head against a tree

He turned round, revealing that what had seemed from the back like a harmless navy sweater was actually a V-neck diamond-pattern in shades of yellow and blue — as favoured by the more elderly of the nation's sports reporters. As my friend Tom often remarks, it's amazing how much time and money can be saved in the world of dating by close attention to detail. A white sock here, a pair of red braces there, a grey slip-on shoe, a swastika, are as often as not all one needs to tell you there's no point writing down

Suddenly I realize I am waiting for the phone again. How can it be that the situation between the sexes after a first night remains so agonizingly imbalanced? Feel as if I have just sat an exam and must wait for my results.

Can officially confirm that the way to a man s heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.

You should make the most of being single while it lasts, Bridge,' she said. 'Once you've got kids and you've given up your job you're in an incredibly vulnerable position. I know Jeremy thinks my life is just one big holiday, but basically it's extremely hard work looking after a toddler and a baby all day, and it doesn't stop. When Jeremy comes home at the end of the day he wants to put his feet up and be nurtured and, as I imagine all the time now, fantasize about girls in leotards at the Harbour Club.

'I had a proper job before. I know for a fact it's much more fan going out to work, getting all dressed up, flirting in the office and having nice lunches than going to the bloody supermarket and picking Harry up from playgroup. But there's always this aggrieved air that I'm some sort of ghastly Harvey Nichols-obsessed lady who lunches while he earns all the money.'

She's so beautiful, Magda. I watched her toying with her champagne glass despondently and wondered what the answer is for we girls. Talk about grass is always bloody greener. The number of times I've slumped, depressed, thinking how useless I am and that I spend every Saturday night getting blind drunk and moaning to Jude and Shazzer or Tom about not having a boyfriend; I struggle to make ends meet and am ridiculed as an unmarried freak, whereas Magda lives in a big house with eight different kinds of pasta in jars, and gets to go shopping all day. And yet here she is so beaten, miserable and unconfident and telling me I'm lucky . . 

Going out to meet Tom for tea. Decided needed to spend more time on appearance like Hollywood stars and have therefore spent ages putting concealer under eyes, blusher on cheeks and defining fading features.

'Good God,' said Tom when I arrived.

'What?' I said. 'What?'

"Your face. You look like Barbara Cartland.'

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (1999)

Jude had been to the gym where she ended up reading some article calling single girls over thirty 're-treads'. "The guy was arguing that the sort of girls who

 - wouldn't go out with him in their twenties would go out with him now but he didn't want them any more," she said sadly. "He said they were all obsessed with settling down and babies and his rule with girls now was "Nothing over twenty-five".

Whole dating world is like hideous game of bluff and double bluff with men and women firing at each other from opposite lines of sandbags. Is as if there is a set of rules that you are supposed to be sticking to, but no one knows what they are so everyone just makes up their own. Then you end up getting chucked because you didn't follow the rules correctly, but how could you be expected to, when you didn't know what they were in the first place?

"It's very hard for young people now," Elaine interrupted again, looking hard at me. "One can marry anyone when one is eighteen. But when one's character is formed, taking on the reality of a man must seem insufferable. Present company excepted of course."

All friendships between men and women are based on the sexual dynamic. The mistake people make is ignoring this, then getting upset when their friend doesn't shag them."

  "I'm not getting upset," muttered Shazzer.

  "What about friends when neither fancies the other?" said Jude.

  "Doesn't happen. Sex is what drives it. 'Friends' is a bad definition."

"It's not me it's a social trend," I said indignantly. "Women are staying single because they can support themselves and want to do their careers, then when they get older all the men think they're desperate re-treads with sell-by dates and just want someone younger."

  "Honestly, darling. Sell-by dates! Anyone would think you were a tub of cottage cheese in ASDA! All that sillydaft nonsense is just in films, darling."

"No, it's not."

  "Durrr! Sell-by date. They might pretend they want one of these bimbas but they don't really. They want a nice friend. What about Roger what's-his-name that left Audrey for his secretary? Of course she was thick. Six months later he was begging Audrey to come back and she wouldn't have him!"

#Bridget Jones's Diary 1996 #Bridget Jones's Diary book quotes #Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason 1999 #Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason book quotes #helen fielding #bridget jones and mark darcy

[bluebangsthepirate]

loved the mentions of hugh grant and 1995 bbc pride and prejudice with colin firth as mr.darcy in the bridget jones novel. cannot tell if casting for film was intentional but v. entertaining nonetheless

#bookish #bridget jones’s diary #bridget jones #mark darcy #pride and prejudice #colin firth #renee zellweger #hugh grant #helen fielding

[bibliophilecats]

14 May 2023: Least Favourite Book Mom

While looking for a book for this prompt I realised I have way more books with absent or bad mums, so here is one I really dislike from contemporary romance: the "when will you get married" mom.

#book photo challenge #justonemorepage #bridget jones diary #helen fielding

[vulnerasti-cor-meum]

happy 25th anniversary to bridget jones she formed an integral piece of my reading when I was a pre/teen boy

#helen fielding #diary of bridget jones #bridget jones #I was a chick-lit boy.

[everythingbutresolved]

When Helen Fielding said

"Being a woman is worse than being a farmer there is so much harvesting and crop spraying to be done: legs to be waxed, underarms shaved, eyebrows plucked, feet pumiced, skin exfoliated and moisturised, spots cleansed, roots dyed, eyelashes tinted, nails filed, cellulite massaged, stomach muscles exercised. The whole performance is so highly tuned you only need to neglect it for a few days for the whole thing to go to seed."

I wondered if she wanted to insert a plowing pun but her editor cut it out ~ I mean, her surname is FIELDing

#I think she did #helen fielding #bridget jones diary #being a woman #some plowing under the mistletoe Santa

[kammartinez]

#books #history #bridget jones's diary #helen fielding

[adaptationsdaily]

Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) dir. Sharon Maguire

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[kamreadsandrecs]

#books #history #bridget jones's diary #helen fielding #movies

[addictivecontradiction]

Bridget Jones's diary, 2001

#comedy #drama #romance #bridget jones's diary #sharon maguire #helen fielding #andrew davies #richard curtis #renée zellweger #colin firth #matrimony

[litandlifequotes]

That is such crap. How dare you be so fraudulently flirtatious, cowardly and dysfunctional? I am not interested in emotional fuckwittage. Goodbye.

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

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[georgelthomas]

Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: Series I Wish had Just one More Book in Them

Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: Series I Wish had Just one More Book in Them #WritingCommunity #WriterCommunity #BloggingCommunity #BloggerCommunity #WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge #Challenge #Wednesday #blog #BridgetJones #BookSeries

Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Wednesday, and it’s time for my next post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. You can check out the list of topics for 2024 here if you’d like to take part, and you can read what others have written on today’s topic here. Series I Wish had Just one More Book in Them While reading has always been one of my…

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