But the thing about having kids is: you can't go to pieces; you just have to keep going.
--Helen Fielding
Don't regret anything. Remember there wasn't anything else that could have happened, given who you were and the state of the world at that moment. The only thing you can change is the present, so learn from the past.
--Helen Fielding
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.
--Helen Fielding
Homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.
--Helen Fielding
It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.
--Helen Fielding
It is horrid to smirk.
--Helen Fielding
It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.
--Helen Fielding
It's always so nice to meet someone more badly behaved than oneself.
--Helen Fielding
Most of the wars in the world are caused by people who think they have god on their side. Always stick with people who know they are flawed and ridiculous.
--Helen Fielding
Never change haircut or color before an important event.
--Helen Fielding
No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.
--Helen Fielding
Nothing is either as bad or good as it seems.
--Helen Fielding
Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status- like geisha girls do.
--Helen Fielding
Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss.
--Helen Fielding
The corruption of the good by the belief in their own infallible goodness is the most bloody dangerous pitfall in the human spectrum.
--Helen Fielding
Trust your instincts, not your overactive imagination.
--Helen Fielding
We cannot avoid pain, we cannot avoid loss. Contentment comes from the ease and flexibility with which we move through change.
--Helen Fielding
Why does turning on a TV these days require three remotes with ninety buttons? Why?
--Helen Fielding
Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.
--Helen Fielding
You can't be ironic about dead people.
--Helen Fielding
You'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz.
--Helen Fielding
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