Curated Quotations

Julia Child

Quotations

  • “I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it’s hard for young people today, don’t you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.” -Julia Child

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  • “The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.” -Julia Child

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  • “I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say ‘him’ rather than ‘her.’ Maybe it’s because of my generation, but I don’t like the idea of a female God. I see God as…

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  • “When I got to France I realized I didn’t know very much about food at all. I’d never had a real cake. I’d had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn’t have anything like that in it – it’s…

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  • “The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.” -Julia Child

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  • “The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.” -Julia Child

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  • “Life itself is the proper binge.” -Julia Child

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  • “As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.” -Julia Child

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  • “I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.” -Julia Child

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  • “In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.” -Julia Child

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  • “Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you’re in a crowd, you’ll always have some clean air to breathe.” -Julia Child

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  • “The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.” -Julia Child

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