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.

Fortunately the French don't suffer from the same hysteria we do. The eldest of three children Julia Child had a brother John III (1914–2002) and a sister Dorothy Dean (1917–2006). C.

Julia Carolyn Child (née McWilliams; August 15 1912 – August 13 2004) was an American chef author and television personality.