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“Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.”

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Julia Child, an American chef, author, and television personality, is known as the 'Matriarch of American Cooking'. Born on August 15, 1912, in Pasadena, California, she passed away on August 13, 2004. Child is renowned for her promotion of French cuisine and her passion for culinary arts. Her works and television shows have greatly influenced the perception of cooking in America. more

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“Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook.”

Done Certain Television Amount Cooks Bakers Pastries Generalists

Author:Julia Child

“We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.”

Should Fun Enjoy Pleasure Having Fun Simplest

Author:Julia Child

“Never apologize for your cooking.”

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Author:Julia Child

“No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize.”

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“Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another's and therefore in the right place.”

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“I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face and the moulting birds frozen to their own filth in the Orangerie. I know now I was in the throes of some small glandular crisis, a sublimated bilious attack, a flick from the whip of melancholia, but then it was terrifying...nameless...”

Thinking Knows Men Way Whole Past Faces Rooms Cold Bird Crisis Sat Gray Frozen Chill Drowning Beggar Whips Nameless Filth

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“Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.”

Painting Series Pregnant Whim Isms Pregnant Women

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“It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a certain safety. Potatoes are one of the last things to disappear, in times of war, which is probably why they should not be forgotten in times of peace.”

Thinking Men Should War Lasts Certain Easy Safety Forgotten Disappear Potatoes

Book:The Art of Eating

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“If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.”

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“Too few of us, perhaps, feel that breaking of bread, the sharing of salt, the common dipping into one bowl, mean more than satisfaction of a need. We make such primal things as casual as tunes heard over a radio, forgetting the mystery and strength in both.”

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Book:The Art of Eating

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