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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. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#aspects #attack #being #books #comedy

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#another #falls #life #looking #part

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#baby #born #loved #need #never

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#evil #false #gossip #lot #needn

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair. ↗

— Frank Howard Clark

#having #needs #never #nothing #repair

The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#computer #diaries #did #end #ended

Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding. ↗

— Helen Clark

#areas #biodiversity #continues #countries #expanding

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#elegant #excellency #generally #heart #taste

I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work. ↗

— Helen Clark

#been #building #china #connected #dynamic

If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries. ↗

— Helen Clark

#been #concentration #countries #create #currently