Nigella Lawson Quotes

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

I was always a homebody who wanted to be somebody's wife.

I would be curious about one of those Jane Austen women - you know - long-suffering, dutiful - but all right in the end - a plump 19th century type, five foot four, ringlets, brown eyes, long fingers.

I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much.

The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!

Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.

The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad.

Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

I have been a ballerina, a cheerleader and a sorority girl. I was the girliest girl alive.

I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

I was very proud to be Mrs. Curtis Amy. My thing in life when I married Curtis Amy was being Mrs. Curtis Amy. Career was fine, but I was enthralled with being Curtis' wife. That was very important to me back then, and that's always important to a young lady from New Orleans. That's our upbringing: to be a wonderful wife and mother first.

I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

Growing up, I was never the kind of girl to dream about wedding dresses and pretty houses.

People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success in my career is having been a mother.

I'm getting all domesticated. I feel like Susie the homemaker.

I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.

You typically find stereotypical female characters that are people pleasers, where they are wives and girlfriends, typically, who are in the background.

In the individualist ideology, a man is responsible for his wife and children. This relegates women to domestic roles as wives and mothers protected by their menfolk, or silences them as special interest harpies demanding government benefits that will destroy individualist men.

I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children.

In 'Aarathu Sinam', I play a wife and mother. It's a very homely character, quite contrary to what I've done so far.

There's something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children... What sort of trouble will she make?