I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.

I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.

Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.

Be good to yourself. If you don't take care of your body, where will you live?

Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.

I'm just the last English twit, really.

The Monstrous Regiment of Women.

To grasp God in all things--this is the sign of your new birth.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

You're damn right when you say I've shown people how to make a firebomb, I've done my time for my crimes, and I should be able to talk about them.

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.