Gender Dynamics

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones Diary

It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.

Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones Diary

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

Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones Diary

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

Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones Diary

I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as a woman of substance.

Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones Diary