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'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.

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

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.

I had been teaching myself photography.

Enemies can also be friends.

A library after closing is a lonely place. It is heart-poundingly silent, and the rows of shelves create an almost unfathomable number of dark and creepy corners.

I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.

we can do anything when we decide to win no matter what!

If you're gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.

There's no reason you'd shoot Mother Theresa and Newt Gingrich the same way.

Everybody works but the vacant lot

My relationship with my wife is fraught with all of the problems that any couples face, but there is a sense of humor that we have about it and a real desire to want to make it better.

If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.

I don't want to impress somebody, I want to move somebody. Say the most with the least.