Quotes from Ree Drummond

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.

I love nutcrackers, as I was a ballerina growing up.

I don't like bananas. I like to drive that point home.

In many ways, our marriage is anything but traditional. When I started my blog in 2006, Ladd was the only one that really understood what I was doing, probably before I even understood what I was doing. He wasn't tech-savvy, but he just got it and was totally on board with it.

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.

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.

As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good.

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.

I prefer cooking to baking. Baking, to me, is very precise, and it's about perfection.

I had been teaching myself photography.

I'm not a chef, and I'm not an expert at anything. I'm just a mom and a wife.

Butter, cream, and bacon. That's such a great foundation right there.

Now I live in the middle of nowhere on a working cattle ranch.

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 didn't even know any cowboys growing up. When my friends heard that I was marrying a cattle rancher and moving to the country, they literally could not believe it. They started calling me the Pioneer Woman as a joke.

I'm so boring. My idea of a great day is just to be home with absolutely nothing to do.

I think deerskin work gloves are the answer to everything. You can give them to someone who gardens or someone who works outside. And you can give them to someone who grills; they're great for grilling. I wear them all the time, 24/7.

I'm wondering if I made the right decision about hair and makeup.

I'm pretty sure I could've ended up on 'Real Housewives of Orange County.' They need a fair-skinned redhead.

I think people are drawn to 'The Pioneer Woman,' not because I am some fascinating person but because I present things that a lot of people can relate to.

I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.

I'm as flawed as the next person. But maybe I inspire women because I'm an example that you should never assume that where you are in life or what you're doing is going to remain exactly as it is forever.

If you ruin the main course of a dinner party, it ain't all that tragic. Just laugh!