I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.

Life itself is the proper binge.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

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.

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

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.

People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to show that they're great patriots, because they're not thinking, they're just being hysterical.