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.

You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

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.

With enough butter, anything is good

You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.

Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to fix one's mistakes, or live with them, was an important part of becoming a cook.

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