Top 101 Quotes & Sayings by Sophie Dahl - Page 2

I should be allowed to be voluptuous or scrawny of my own volition, without people going on about it.

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

My relationship with food has always been uncomplicated.

I do love cooking, but our kitchen is nothing fancy or hi-tech.

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.

When I was at school I wanted to be a writer and an actress. Then this whole modelling thing happened.

My modeling career was really just a long accident - one that happened to coincide with my chocolate-cake phase.

I have no complaints about my childhood whatsoever.

Feminism is so pertinent - it affects all of us. As a woman you have an instinct to question sexual politics, we have a responsibility to care.

It's nice being married to someone who likes to read because you can indulge in geeky conversations about books.

I still don't know what the 'ideal' woman is. Waifs will always be in demand because it's a lot easier to design for straight up and down rather than round curves. This is the reality, unfortunately.

How I view my body hasn't been uncomplicated, but that was because my body was discussed and dissected at great length in a very public forum, when I was at a formative age.

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 am not ashamed to admit that I'm wearing Yves Saint Laurent from top to toe.

I certainly wouldn't feel safe telling people I was writer.

I've spent a great deal of my life one way or another talking about food or eating food.

It really was total heaven to be a writer. As a model or actor you are employed on someone's whim. As a writer, you are in control.

On my raw food diet, my skin shone bright like a gilded deity and my eyes glowed in a somewhat unearthly manner.

I had a fantastic time as a model.

My cooking is incredibly haphazard, but I've never pretended it was anything else.

That's the whole thing about fashion: it's fantasy. To dip into that at 18 and 19 was amazing.

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.

I can't eat at all when I get sad; all I want is soup and easy-to-swallow baby food and, of all things, jelly babies.

Find me a first novel that doesn't have parallels with the author's life.

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

I love anchovies in sauces, but on their own, they're repellent: their lurid pink bodies spook me out.

None of the sample sizes ever fit me at the photo shoots. One would think that would've made me want to lose weight, but I just got rounder.

In my family, we were all rather plump as teenagers.

I grew up with my grandfather, so I knew him really, really well. He was funny and opinionated and wonderful. He was fascinated by things and always curious.

I get asked about my weight endlessly. There is no story. It doesn't merit so much talk.

Some people get fat when they're miserable; certainly this was true of my teenage self, but as an adult, deliver me a week of extreme stress and misery and watch me disappear.

I'm a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in.

I've started to read more factual books, partly because I didn't go to university.

When I began modelling I was completely unprepared for the onslaught of curiosity it carried with it.

I think everyone goes through a phase of longing to be little - I always wanted to be a girl who could sit on a man's lap, but that is just not going to happen.

A formative cookbook for me was Nigella Lawson's 'How to Eat.' Its warm, conversational tone is wonderful.

I absolutely didn't think, 'I am really fat, I must get thinner.'

I was lucky because my upbringing was so eccentric. It has helped me cope with unreal situations.

I was greedy and ate in that unselfconscious way teenagers do, constantly grazing and eating when I wasn't hungry.

The problem with life is, we often do things that will ultimately be self-destructive and make us unhappy, yet in that moment it seems like the best idea in the world. You have to be careful of moments - they're tricksy things.

Writing is very different to having your photo taken. You are exposing yourself more, not physically but emotionally.