Nigella Lawson - Lives Quotes

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You will cook the way you live, but the very important difference is that when you cook you have to leave your head and let your body take over.

Nigella Lawson

But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in.

Nigella Lawson

My sister lives in New York and she was struck by how class-ridden the reviews were. Everyone had to mention that I'm posh. British people are obsessed by that. I said to John, 'I'm not posh.' Is my voice posh?

Nigella Lawson

To me, sentimentality is a cheap and unfeeling substitute for true emotion. I think food is very much about emotion, personally and historically. It takes in happiness and unhappiness. It doesn't always play the role of being nurturing and benign, which is how we tend to think of it. It reflects every aspect of our lives and our personalities.

Nigella Lawson