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 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.

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.

I had been teaching myself photography.

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

Responsibility entails that we demand and work for the change or transformation we yearn for in our society instead of wishful thoughts.

Courage sometimes skips a whole generation

Business is the school of life. Success in business requires success in living.

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

I was a terrible English student.

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

You are much more likely to have a holy experience in a quiet, focused, and communal context than you are when you are being entertained.

You cant censor peoples dreams.

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.