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 all egg power.

- Julia Child

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

I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.

- Julia Child

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 a benevolent male.

- Julia Child

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

Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? I am sure that an unhappy or suspicious stomach, constricted and uneasy with worry, cannot digest properly.

- Julia Child

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

- Julia Child

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

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

- Julia Child

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