I'm not tough. I'm tenacious. Padma Lakshmi More Quotes by Padma Lakshmi More Quotes From Padma Lakshmi Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked? Padma Lakshmi women clever witty The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them? Padma Lakshmi touching body beautiful I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide. Padma Lakshmi clothes character mean In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken. Padma Lakshmi church krishna way Beauty is no accomplishment on its own. It's what you do with it. Padma Lakshmi accomplishment success Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once. Padma Lakshmi singing body song My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go. Padma Lakshmi scared squares mom In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends. Padma Lakshmi cousin daughter mother I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch. Padma Lakshmi lunch girl thinking I'm a sucker for fried chicken - I really love it. Padma Lakshmi fried-chicken sucker chickens Women's voices not being heard is the root of many of the problems of the world. Padma Lakshmi voice roots world In southern Spain, they made me eat a bull's testicles. They were really garlicky, which I don't like. I prefer to take a bull by the horns, not by, um... Padma Lakshmi spain bulls southern I always think, after the second glass of wine, you should be putting something in your stomach. Padma Lakshmi glasses wine thinking I've always thought the back is one of the most beautiful parts of a woman. Padma Lakshmi beautiful I have a great career, and I have my daughter. Sio what I don't have is not as important to as what I do have. Padma Lakshmi daughter careers mom Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely. Padma Lakshmi white giving thinking I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece. Padma Lakshmi phones beautiful people I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting. Padma Lakshmi sensual sound sleep People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong. Padma Lakshmi smart girl strong Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once. Padma Lakshmi wine flower rose
