135 Quotes by Padma Lakshmi

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.

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.

I always loved my bangles, I can’t remember a time when I didn’t have a bangle on.

An oil massage, a hot bath, a good night’s sleep, soft smells and music and clothes with soft textures denote sensuality to me.

Like many immigrants, I had always kept my Eastern and Western lives compartmentalized.

People always comment about my clothes. They don’t think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

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.

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.

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.