Rachael Ray Quotes

By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

Boyfriends have to understand me and my needs. They have to know what I want out of my life and about my strict regime. I go to bed at 10pm and not later. I separate my professional and private lives.

I like my life alone. I mean, I love being with friends, and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices.

You have to find a way to protect yourself in a certain way from people who are constantly demanding your time.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Living together places a huge burden on the other person to be lover, friend, entertainments manager, chef, domestic help, which is almost impossible and can lead to disappointment. If you don't live together, you spend more time with other people and ease the pressure off your lover.

I don't want anyone part of my love life besides me and the person I'm loving.

Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.

There's no time for boys in my life right now.

I am a relationship girl. That's kind of just how I'm made... When you're in my life, it's actually very contained.

I could never be with a woman who felt like she needs to change me.

If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out.

Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself.

I try my best, but at the same time, I try not to let being out with someone affect my everyday life. Like, if I want to go out and grab a smoothie with a friend who's a male, I'm not gonna let the paparazzi stop me from doing that and living my life and just being a normal person.

With someone who is genuinely abusive or a bad person, you should just get out of town. But if they're being the best person they know how to be, then you have to decide if there isn't much there you can love and not become consumed with what they're not able to give you.

I totally commit and completely give myself to a relationship. Be warned, though - I don't like being taken for granted, so I can be pretty high-maintenance sometimes!

I can be in a beautiful, loving and caring relationship, but it can't be 24x7 and 30 days a month. At the end of the day, I need my time alone.

Here I am.... You get the parts of me you like and also the parts that make you uncomfortable. You have to understand that other people's comfort is no longer my job. I am no longer a flight attendant.

I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people's identity and they end up full of resentment.

If your family or your people are looking over your shoulder, change your seat or push them away.

I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time.

I respect my boundaries, and I insist that others respect them, too.

Why don't I just give you a pair of my panties to hang around your neck? Then whenever you feel jealous, you can wave them at whoever's pissing you off.

I've never been the guy who's like, 'I take it home with me.'