I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.

We don't like to talk about that in America, but there are classes in America. And she [Julia Child] was of a class of women who were wealthy, privately educated, went to Smith, moved in that sort of circle. She was conscripted into the OSS, which is the early CIA, which was all filled with Yalies and Princeton and Harvard people and a few women who were typing mostly but also had something to do.

The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.

You have to embrace getting older.

I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do not want to see our children killed. Maybe I am completely idealistic, but until we see women in equal positions of power in the world, I just think that we are doomed.