"I think that if you're not a fan of irony as a form of expression, then a book that contains the line, "There's nothing so unattractive to a man as strident feminism" is going to make you cross. I also think that if we can't have a comic female character, if we can't laugh at ourselves without having a panic attack about what it says about women, we haven't got very far with our equality."
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Novelists from EnglandHumoristsWomen authors from EnglandUniversity of Oxford alumniWomen born in the 1950s
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Interviewed by Viv Groskop, as cited in "Bridget Jones: older, yes, but still mad about the boys", The Observer (2 June 2013)
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