As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good.

I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.

I want people to see how hard my husband and kids work on the ranch.

The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and that's not going to change.

I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.

I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the 'pack the kids into the car and run from here to there' out of the equation.

It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.

I had been teaching myself photography.

The journey is the REWARD! NOT the destination.

One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.

Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly

Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.

Committees do harm merely by existing.

I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.

I know it sounds very cliché and not very exciting, but if I'm outdoors - in the wild or the ocean or the forest - it inspires me.

Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night.

If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve.

I'd been collecting different ethnic instruments here and there, and then I started making little bell type stuff, looking for weird little sound toys.