Quotes from Nigella Lawson

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.

I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.

Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef.

Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.

There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.

If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can't enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes.

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.