I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.

I want people to see how hard my husband and kids work on the ranch.

The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and that's not going to change.

Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.

I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the 'pack the kids into the car and run from here to there' out of the equation.

As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good.

It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.

I had been teaching myself photography.

Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

His guilt swelled up, churning like a paddle wheel in his stomach. He wanted desperately to flee. How do you escape something that comes from inside? The revenant, he knew, searched for him.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.

A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.

I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic.

When you love something, you get to know it. Then you feel the ownership and if it changes, you only love it as far as you know it because then you're like, "What is this?"

My wife drives a couple of Cadillacs.

I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.