Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.

One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.

The shellfish thing is very scary. You have to know the people you buy from and exactly where their wholesalers are getting the fish from.