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.

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.

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

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.

Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.

Never be content with your work, your relationships, your life. That's the stupid advice philosophers give today.

Oh what a blamed uncertain thing This pesky weather is It blew and snew and then it thew And now by jing it's friz.

The space elevator's not just another competitive technology, promoted by people who simply like the idea of diminishing the luster of the thrusters. It would open wide the doors to space.

No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.

I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.

Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind

Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault.