My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in that area.

I’m awfully sorry for people who are taken in by all of today’s dietary mumbo jumbo. They are not getting any enjoyment out of their food.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.

The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

People who are not interested in food always seem rather dry and unloving and don't have a real gusto for life.