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 Read Quote
I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn’t want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it. Padma Lakshmi Read Quote
I think wine is such a big universe that it’s kind of like food – it’s intimidating to a lot of people, myself included. Padma Lakshmi Read Quote
If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it’s so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that’ll lead you to another wine. Padma Lakshmi Read Quote
Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There’s a built-in romance to wine. Padma Lakshmi Read Quote
I’ve been a model for 15 years, and I’ve been on ‘Top Chef’ for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I’ve learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body. Padma Lakshmi Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
For a long time, I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person. Padma Lakshmi Read Quote
