Helen Fielding Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“Nobody wants to be racist and I think that most people aren't.”

“Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.”

“Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.”

“I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.”

“My books have all generated controversy.”

“If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.”

“I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already.”