A biography for Nigella Lawsonhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“'Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.”
“Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef.”
“It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.”
“On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.”
“I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.”
“I don't believe in low-fat cooking.”
“In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.”
“Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.”
“You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.”
“At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.”
“There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.”
“Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.”