135 Quotes by Padma Lakshmi
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Cooking was something women did to nourish and nurture their families, whereas for men it was largely something they did professionally to gain money and status.
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I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn’t want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.
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I always loved my bangles, I can’t remember a time when I didn’t have a bangle on.
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An oil massage, a hot bath, a good night’s sleep, soft smells and music and clothes with soft textures denote sensuality to me.
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Like many immigrants, I had always kept my Eastern and Western lives compartmentalized.
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People always comment about my clothes. They don’t think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
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Maybe that old adage about not being able to have a good apartment, a good relationship, and a good job at the same time is true.
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In truth, I am a single mother. But I don’t feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.
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But now I was home. In my home, home home, once and for all. I had had various apartments before in quite a few cities over the course of my life, but this was the first one I owned, and it felt good. A roof over my head and a place to be private, to cry, to laugh, to gorge, to hope, to dream, to wallow, and to pray for things was a salve to my soul.
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