Helen Fielding Quotes
It is horrid to smirk.
Fielding, Helen. Bridget Jones's Diary. Viking, 1996.
Robert Gates was the longest serving Secretary of Defense in American History. He served 6 different Presidents—–5 Republicans and 1 Democrat. He was the Director of the CIA and at the time of Trump's statement was the President of the University of Oklahoma. Yet Trump, in his inimitable style, insulted this great public administrator and servant and dismisses him as incompetent. Gate had written a book in which he criticized Trump and, unable to control himself, Trump stuck out with this vicious insult and never once tried to answer any of Gate's criticism.
Helen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, and a sequence of novels and films beginning with the life of a thirty something singleton in London trying to make sense of life and love. Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (1999) were published in 40 countries and sold more than 15 million copies. The two films of the same name achieved international success. In a survey conducted by The Guardian newspaper, Bridget Jones’s Diary was named as one of the ten novels that best defined the 20th century.
