QUOTES by Jack Monroe
Find most favourite and famour Authors from A.A Milne to Zoe Kravitz.
I remember going on adventures with my older brother and, when I was 11, being allowed to go to the corner shop alone, and filling up a bag with penny chews, Fruit Salads, Bruiser bars and Black Jacks.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
And I'm autistic, which means I can be hyperfocused but also all over the place at the same time. I think I'm very lucky to have found cooking because it's the one area where a brain like mine really thrives.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
I never learned to cook, so I've got no rules. I'll put things together just because I think they belong together.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
As a kid we would eat moussaka with mash. We had a real fusion of two cultures that no-one has dared to fuse since.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
Party politics are quite upsetting. I've been a member of the Labour party, the Green party, the Women's Equality Party, the National Health Action Party and now I'm not a member of any.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
I've had success, but I'm still haunted by the fear of being hungry. Once you've lived it it never leaves you.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
When I was born my parents lived in a flat so small that it now legally can't be rented out as a dwelling.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
I think as much as people moan at things like award ceremonies, it gives people role models. It provides real positive reinforcement that you can be who you are and still massively achieve.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
For some people, pronouns are a very important part of how they identify. I completely understand that. For me, I have more of a looser interpretation.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
I put my son's nutritional needs first, and existed on pasta and thin air more times than I would dare to admit.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
I'm very careful with the money I have, I pay myself the living wage, and I try to save the rest, because if life has taught me one thing it's that you never know what is around the corner.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
When I was at my lowest point I had a lot of help from charities, food banks, to see me through so it is nice to start to give something back.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
During my time at Essex county fire and rescue service, barely a shift went by without receiving a call from an elderly person who had fallen in their home, or from their concerned neighbour or carer.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
I left home at 18, I thought I knew everything. It was fun for a while and then it wasn't fun any more.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
Many families teeter on the edges, not qualifying for the little support on offer, unwilling to seek it for fear of drawing attention to a household barely holding the pieces together, or hit by unexpected bills.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
Don't say things about people that aren't true... because there are consequences for that.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
At 11, following comprehensive psychiatric and cognitive assessments, an educational psychiatrist appointed by my high school recommended that I attend a school for 'gifted and talented' children.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
The last time I celebrated a special occasion, I hashed together a paella with some chicken, some frozen veg, long-grain rice, chilli and a shake of turmeric for colour - and it didn't disappoint.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
Sweetcorn, mushy peas, beans, lentils, are all basic staples that can be thrown together into a variety of surprising meals.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
Learning to cook at school gave me the confidence to experiment in the kitchen when I left home in my late teens - I wasn't intimidated by it.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
Working behind the cocktail bar was a different kind of escapism, a creative outlet with a newfound respect for alcohol. I didn't drink as I was also working day shifts in a coffee shop and, later, the fire service, and needed my wits about me to pull off my 60-hour working weeks.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
My pregnancy changed my relationship with my body because I went from despising it to marvelling at what it can do.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
I was working with the fire service in a job that should have been a job for life, with career progression, with a pension and promotion, and within a year I was sleeping on a sofa under a section 21 notice being evicted from my home and not eating or four days.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
It's definitely not the case that every child living in poverty is eligible for free school lunches.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
Working 90 hours a week is easily racked up when you're self-employed and rely on portable tech to do your work; your train journeys, toilet breaks, leisurely walks, bedtime, can all become 'working hours'. Reclaim them.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
There's all kinds of research that shows children operate best if they start the day with some proper food inside them - it's a no-brainer.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
But it's a disgrace that food banks are needed in the first place, patching up the holes left by an inefficient and downright barbaric attack on the meagre safety net of what remains of a notion of 'social security'.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
In my experience, yelling at people that they are wrong and disgusting rarely wins the argument, nor changes point of view.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
People nag me about my weight, my cooking, my tattoos, my hair, my sexuality, everything. I can deal with all that because I'm still doing my job and I kind of like myself.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
I'm not the spring chicken everyone wants. I've got a debilitating illness. The brave face is 'I'm busy with work' but I've sort of chucked myself on the scrapheap. That's why I'm single. I've resigned myself to being a difficult woman.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
It took 24 years for me to harness my autistic traits into something useful, and I have grown to regard them as a kind of superpower. Cooking, to me, is akin to algebra, and my mind a pocket calculator.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
The thing with my recipes is, I don't have hours to faff about in the kitchen. My recipes are all 15, 20 minute, chop it up and stick it in the oven.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
Until people realise benefits doesn't mean scrounger, and austerity isn't a fun middle-class way to grow your own vegetables, there's still a lot of work to do.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
A startling confession for a food writer: all through high school, I struggled with a severe eating disorder.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
Those of us referred to food banks are the lucky ones with a good doctor or health visitor who knows us well enough to recognise that something has gone seriously wrong.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
I spent 18 months with the furniture parked in front of the radiators, cooking as quickly as I possibly could to use the least amount of gas and electricity. I unscrewed the lightbulbs in the hallway, unplugged everything at the wall so not even the LCD display was blinking away on the oven.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
We need to aim to get rid of food banks altogether, and replace charitable intervention with a fairer, more equal society.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
Poverty took me from being the girl who was always the lead in the school play, to a woman who can't open her own front door.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
I'm not organised, and I don't cope well with deadlines, structure and routine. I'm chaotic. Always have been.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
Cheese is one of the world's great foodstuffs and I speak as someone who would once happily snarf a packet of American-style cheese singles in front of the telly on my own.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
But I know that trying to black out my past with oblivion will just damage my future. I made the decision to stop running from my fears, and to walk slowly and deliberately towards self-nurture, self-respect, and better mental and physical health.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
Even in my genre, cookery, just look who gets on the television. Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay, Nigel Slater. All very nice men. All white middleflclass men.
Quote by -Jack Monroe
I was a young mother with a dependent. I went from nice flat and fire service job to cold and hungry with a child. I lived rough for two years, with six months relying on the food bank.
Quote by -Jack Monroe