Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.

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.

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.

My friend says she's smart. She reads a book to fall asleep.

Don’t remove the ladder once you done with it. Leave it for others to climb too

TV was my hobby. I loved the glitz. I loved how hot everybody was.

I got pulled over when I was behind the wheel of a Porsche in Philly once for what we call DWB - Driving While Black.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.

For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.

Every week you have to play well to be the champion.

Let's find visual excitement in what nature has to offer.

They wrote that I'd gained 30 pounds over the summer and lost it in a week because I was dating three guys at once!