The testosterone that flows through the hot line in the kitchen is unbelievable. Women are considered weaker and were always pushed off to pastry.

I know one day I'll be considered too old. I think 40-year-old women actually look more healthy and fit than some girls in their 20s. I've met women who have way better bodies in their 40s because they've been working on them for all these years.

He's got an unbelievable backhand. You can't read it, ... You don't know if he's going up the line or he holds it to go cross-court. He's very talented. He's going to definitely be up there in contention for Grand Slam titles. It was such a tough match. I know that his arm was bothering him. I don't know how bad that was hurting.

It used to be you were the last one to get equipment, you were low man on the totem pole.

[Building a dessert on an unlikely flavor can also be risky business.] If it's warm and chocolate it's nirvana for most people, ... But I can't give away prune desserts.

Men are always pushed into group situations ... like group sports with a leader. In the kitchen the chef is your captain, but in pastry there is more autonomy, more independence. Women relish that. you are permitted to be creative sooner than on the hot line.