Books Quote by Salla Simukka

“All her life, she was used to being pampered, to having everything she desired, but the things that she valued were never those that…

— F. Sionil José

“This book is dedicated to my brilliant and beautiful wife without whom I would be nothing. She always comforts and consoles, never complains or…

— Albert Malvino

“It seems like women are always in the kitchen around food and they're serving and they're giving and they're enjoying and it's part of…

— Kathy Bates

“What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Her hospitality was something exquisite; she had the gift which so many women lack, of being able to make themselves and their houses belong…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

“I was hers in ways that those with loyalties of convenience cannot fathom. I loved her beyond words and clothes, and yes beyond even…

— Sonja Livingston

“What fun it all was, she thought, and how entirely new and delicious being taken care of as though she were a thing that…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“The pleasure of this sort of life-bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life- had made her isolation into a rich and…

— Louise Erdrich

“To be mother and wife. To be tool and toy, to be bountiful and beautiful, to be expansive and inclusive. To cover the world…

— Sarah Moriarty

“All a woman needs is a little pampering and a little perspective and she is ready to conquer the world.”

— Jennifer Ott

“She was like a bride-to-be who begins to feel her sickening qualms as the day approaches, and dares not speak her mind because so…

— Ian McEwan

“She took care of evyone with the same no-nonsense air of friendliness and good cheer that made her seem so paradoxically wholesome, as if…

— Tom Perrotta