108 Quotes by Sophie Dahl

It was a really lucky childhood and while, yeah, there were bits of darkness, which is known about because my mother has made no bones about her struggle with depression, the overriding memory of it is a very happy, good one.

I have become that middle-aged woman who listens to the 'Hamilton' soundtrack in my kitchen.

I wasn't lonely as a child. I was the eldest of four and always had lots of people around me.

I remember being home alone when I was about 13 and making a souffle from a recipe in one of my mother's old cookbooks. I approached it in a very unafraid way, and produced a rather beautiful one.

To my detriment I'm quite rosy-visioned about the idea of love. It's slightly embarrassing but it's part of who I am.

I think with girls you have a real responsibility in terms of how you discuss the physical. Talking about your looks or body in a derogatory way doesn't do them any favours.

I love cooking fish pies.

I think that if you really love a book, there's nothing nicer than to have a first edition of it.

I eat very simple food, really. A lot of it tending towards nursery food.