Julia Child Quotes

I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.

Julia Child

• Feel
• Cooking
• Rules

Life itself is the proper binge.

Julia Child

• Life
• Proper
• Binge

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

• Happy
• Marriage
• Person

When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's pretty much an assembly job - you can mix and match a different way every time.

Julia Child

• Ideas
• Cake
• Repertoire

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

• Fear
• Food
• Doctors

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.

Julia Child

• Mother
• Career
• Generation

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

Julia Child

• Life
• Drama
• Pancake

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

Julia Child

• Interested
• Passionate
• Keep

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

• Business
• Advantage
• Tall

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.

Julia Child

• Season
• Cook
• Recipes