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“Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.”

“Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.”

Trying Home Mother House Mom Areas Warm Kitchen Italian Magnificent Bucks Stretching Good Food Decorating Beautification

Author:Rachael Ray

“I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.”

Feels Writing Wells Today Used Hours Labor Cooking Clean Eight Kitchen Relax Vacation Crash Fatigue Days Off Chatting

Author:Rachael Ray

“All of the people who work in the kitchen with me go out into the forests and on to the beach. It's a part of their job. If you work with me you will often be starting your day in the forest or on the shore because I believe foraging will shape you as a chef.”

People Ifs Believe Jobs I Believe Shapes Starting Forests Beach Kitchen Shore Chef Often Is Foraging

Author:Rene Redzepi

“I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.”

I Can Actors Pride Direct Dinner Kitchen Movie Breakfast Lunch

Author:Julia Roberts

“I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.”

Fantasy Kitchen Chef

Author:Geoffrey Rush

“I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff.”

Littles Home Kids Stuff Office Kitchen

Author:Katey Sagal

“Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.”

Turns Tvs Kitchen Liberating Turn Off

Author:Joel Salatin

“I was once making a burger for myself at my boyfriend's house and a lyric started pouring out and I had to catch it, so I ran to another room to write it down, but then the kitchen caught fire. His cabinets were charred, and he was furious. But it was worth it for a song.”

Writing Song House Rooms Fire Caught Ran Kitchen Worth It Cabinets Pouring Furious My Boyfriend Burgers

Author:Jill Scott

“I want witchcraft so bad that I can't stand it. I have wands in my apartment. And I use them sometimes. I walk into the kitchen with my wand, and I come out with something on a platter and I say, 'See, magic happens.' Works every time.”

Want I Can Sometimes Use Happens Walks Magic Kitchen Apartment Witchcraft Wands

Author:Amy Sedaris

“The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.”

Mistake Worst Kitchen

Author:Shakira

“Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.”

Men Wise Mankind Food Garden Familiar Kitchen Vegetables Cabbage Vegetable Garden

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“I kind of just put my boards together wherever I feel comfortable that day. It could be on the kitchen table, on the ground, on the couch, wherever.”

Feels Kind Together Comfortable Tables Boards Kitchen Couches Kitchen Table

Author:Ryan Sheckler

“I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.”

Knows Men Should Attention Cooks Kitchen Skeptical Stoves

Author:Gene Simmons

“You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision.”

Knows World I Can Given Vision Fantasy Grace Kitchen Kitchen Sinks

Author:Kiki Smith

“You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.”

Knows Beats Tables Kitchen Bottles Household Commodity Kitchen Table Ketchup

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.”

Littles Kids Mom My Mom Kitchen Little Kid Helpers

Author:Taylor Swift

“People come up to me all the time and say, 'Oh, I love to watch Food Network,' and I ask them what they cook, and they say, 'I don't really cook.' They're afraid, they're intimidated, they know all about food from eating out and watching TV, but they don't know where to start in their own kitchen.”

People Knows Asks Watches Tvs Eating Come Up Cooks Kitchen Intimidated Watching Tv Eating Out Food Network

Author:Michael Symon

“The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.”

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Author:Andre Leon Talley

“For me, it's the unexpected and surprising combinations of produce that are the most exciting and lure me into the kitchen for a little bit of experimenting. Apples and sweet potatoes together? Who knew? Carrots with grapes? Okay. I may not be Julia Child, but I can do pretty well with a simple recipe and a lot of enthusiasm.”

“When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.”

Known Wise Policy Preparation Chinese Kitchen Engagement Elsewhere Invited Diners Chinese Food

Book:Third Helpings

Source: Third Helpings

“If there's something in the kitchen I like, it must be eaten. I try not to leave any snacks I wouldn't want to eat on a daily basis in the cupboard.”

Ifs Want Trying Bases Kitchen Snacks Cupboards

Author:Jenna Ushkowitz

“To help producers serve larger institutional customers like schools and hospitals, USDA has helped fund new regional infrastructure like cold storage warehouses, commercial kitchens and local slaughter facilities.”

Helping School Cold Customers Locals Producers Kitchen Fund Hospitals Infrastructure Facility Slaughter Storage Warehouse

Author:Tom Vilsack

“I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from school. The hour my children are seated at the kitchen table, their books spread out before them, the crumbs of their after-school snack littering the table, is without a doubt the worst hour of my day.”

Children Book School Hate Hours Doubt Worst I Hate Tables Spread My Children Kitchen Back And Forth Homework Textbooks Snacks Crumbs After School Kitchen Table Binders Littering

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I like to stand in my kitchen with the script on a counter that's about chest high. Usually I do something else at the same time - make a chicken or slice vegetables - and all day long I just read it over and over and over.”

Long Scripts Kitchen Chickens Chests Vegetables

Author:Christopher Walken

“There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.”

Hell Kitchen Hypocrisy

Author:Ethel Waters

“We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.”

Bigs Mom Kitchen Tin Bathtubs Tin Cans Lard

Author:Ethel Waters

“Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.”

People Food Health Kitchen Trends Combat Fast Food Food Safety Processed Food

Author:Andrew Weil

“I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.”

Dog Cooking Kitchen

Author:Betty White

“For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.”

Real Action Kitchen Bombs Zero Action Movie Exploding Ground Zero Dropping Bombs

Author:Michelle Williams

“For my own children, I do want for them to look back and remember that it was me in the kitchen, that I was doing the packed lunches, that we were there on the school run, that we did take a bus. I want them to remember those things, because those are the things that I remember from my own childhood and that have been incredibly important to me.”

Want Looks Children Has Beens Important Running School Remember My Own Childhood Kitchen Bus Lunch

Author:Kate Winslet

“I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.”

I Can Play Kids Reader Window Kitchen

Author:Reese Witherspoon

“I'm a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York.”

New York Terrible Cooks Kitchen Burned Apartment

Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I was like any new bride, who said, 'I'm going to cook for my man.' In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access.”

Knows Men Said Facts Next Easy Fire Scared Access Smoke Cooks Kitchen Brides Pouring Stoves Easy Access Fire Extinguishers

Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

“You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.”

Knows Age Cooking Kitchen Paychecks

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.”

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Author:Anthony Bourdain

“When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.”

Writing Years My Own Behinds Car Taxes Paid Kitchen Furniture Kitchen Confidential Confidential

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“Look at something like cooking. Now, you would hear a lot about smart kitchens and augmented kitchens. And what do those smart kitchens actually do? They police what's happening inside the kitchen. They have cameras that distinguish ingredients one from each other and that tell you that shouldn't mix this ingredient with another ingredient.”

Looks Smart Happenings Police Cameras Cooking Kitchen Ingredients

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.”

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Author:Betty Friedan

“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”

“Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, in honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life...Now, sitting together at the kitchen table at six-thirty every evening, his father's chair empty, this meatless meal is the only thing that seems to make sense.”

“I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as bleeding gums, facial blemishes, unsightly hairs, and faulty or inadequate life insurance. I drew housewives who, until they reached for the right soap flakes, laid themselves wide open to straggly hair, poor posture, unruly children, disaffected husbands, rough (but slender) hands, untidy (but enormous) kitchens.”

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Author:J. D. Salinger

“If I had five million pounds I'd start a radio station because something needs to be done. It would be nice to turn on the radio and hear something that didn't make you feel like smashing up the kitchen and strangling the cat.”

Ifs Needs Feels Done Would Be Turns Millions Five Nice Cat Radio Kitchen Pounds Stations Being Nice Turn-on Radio Stations Smashing Strangling

Author:Joe Strummer

“On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl.”

Two Week Red Dues Evening Kitchen Squares Apartment Bowls Rice Two Weeks August Peanuts Onions Combining Sticky Namesake Planters Due Date Rice Krispies

Author:Jhumpa Lahiri

“S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or at the factory, can happen between people of any gender. There is obviously something titillating about these relationships, but it isn't the sexual components that makes them ugly, they're uglier elsewhere. Nothing sexual is depraved. Only cruelty is depraved, and that's another matter.”

People Matter Happens Expression Relation Ugly Gender Cruelty Kitchen Factories Elsewhere Bedroom Components Submissive Depraved

Book:The Women's Room

Source: The Women's Room

“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”

Writing Sitting Kitchen Kitchen Sinks

Book:I Capture The Castle

Source: I Capture The Castle

“My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.”

Way Mother Crazy Red Paint Kitchen Gas Ovens Scissors Toothpaste

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will still be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time.”

“Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men. And they had some children who were just like all children. And it rained all day. The woman had to skewer the hole in the kitchen sink, when it was blocked up. The man went to the pub every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The other nights he mended his broken bicycle, did the pool coupons, and longed for money and power. The woman read love stories and longed for things to be different. The children fought and yelled and played and had scabs on their knees. In the end they all died.”

“There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.”

Feels Children Moments Happiness Joy Religion House Rooms Laughter Standing Window Painful Hearing My Children Kitchen Flats Squares Privileged Arbitrary Salad True Religion Quilts Driveway

Author:Elizabeth Berg

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