Helen Fielding Quotes

There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person.

Helen Fielding

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 19, 1958

Topics

WomenWomanIdeasThinkYouPerson

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Matt Taibbi

ProductSystemArtsLiberal Arts

This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There's no question of interpretation of what we are saying it's just about feeling. You create your own story.

Michel Hazanavicius

FunMeSayingStoryLanguageYou

Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming traits of a simple, earnest-hearted girlhood, and they are the happiest women who never lose it entirely.

Lucy Larcom

WomenTrustSimpleThinkLoseNever

My father was jailed off and on for seven years.

Asma Jahangir

FatherYearsOffSevenJailed

If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?

Tina Brown

FootballCongressWhyGirlfriend

Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.

Tim Ferriss

FoodPeopleMeThinkGenerationWay

Kids need a mom and a dad, and people understand that. Marriage between a mom and a dad is most important for kids.

Tim Huelskamp

MarriagePeopleMomUnderstandNeed

There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11.

Noam Chomsky

MovementSplitBeenCriticalMuch

I think it's so important to be healthy and confident and natural. And not put too much stress on trying to be thin - I don't get the thin, thin thing at all.

Lily James

StressThinkConfidentTryingGet

I get very excited when I go to a show - there are all these people who don't know each another who've come together to celebrate this amazing ritual. The making of community that theater provides is quite profound.

Hugh Hardy

CommunityTogetherPeopleAmazingGo

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

Hermann von Helmholtz

CuriosityIndividualUsPractical

I want to do everything to get to a new level.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan

NewWantEverythingLevelGet

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