A biography for Sophie Dahlhasn’t been written yet.
“I had a fantastic time as a model.”
“I didn't like being a model. It feels weird to stand in your knickers in front of people you aren't married to.”
“I'm sure there were people who were disappointed that I got slimmer, but as one gets older one does often get a bit thinner. There was no great mystery: I had some puppy fat and I lost it.”
“I have a great deal of admiration for my mum.”
“My grandmother is really awful sometimes.”
“I'm doing what I've always wanted to do: being a mum, writing, living in the country, having a happy time.”
“I like routine, and cooking became a ritual when I was modelling in New York. My life was nomadic, so making supper felt like an announcement that I was home.”
“I come from a family of greedy food lovers.”
“Fashion should be about making clothes that make all women look beautiful, not making women starve so that they can fit in a size 8.”
“I love anchovies in sauces, but on their own, they're repellent: their lurid pink bodies spook me out.”
“I go out to dinner occasionally and that's the sum of my dating life.”
“A formative cookbook for me was Nigella Lawson's 'How to Eat.' Its warm, conversational tone is wonderful.”
“I think everyone goes through a phase of longing to be little - I always wanted to be a girl who could sit on a man's lap, but that is just not going to happen.”
“My mother, all of her sisters and my siblings all went through a stage from the age of about 15 to 19 where they widened and then lengthened. Had I not been modelling, that would have been a phase that was in a family photo album rather than in Vogue.”
“Modelling is a bit baffling when you're 18. I just thought, 'Brilliant - I get paid lots of money to walk down a runway.' I didn't think I was signing up to be a poster girl for anything.”
“My family is as complicated as the next family. We have our joys and our tragedies, and we bear both with a black humour that is in our genes.”
“My younger sister, Clover arrived three days before my seventh birthday and I wanted to sell her. I'd had my mother, stepfather, and nanny Maureen, all to myself, and suddenly there was this bonny baby with green grass eyes that everyone adored.”
“Feminism is so pertinent - it affects all of us. As a woman you have an instinct to question sexual politics, we have a responsibility to care.”
“I've spent a great deal of my life one way or another talking about food or eating food.”
“How I view my body hasn't been uncomplicated, but that was because my body was discussed and dissected at great length in a very public forum, when I was at a formative age.”