Julia Child

[AdamSmith]

Julia Child Was a Lonely Virgin Until She Met Her Husband Paul at Age 31

March 31st, 2013 by WTM.org Community

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Julia Carolyn McWilliams, known around the world as Julia Child, was a beloved wife, chef, author, Emmy award winning television personality and research operative within an international spy ring.

 

Quotes about waiting and marriage…

Julia on Paul…

We were based at a lovely old tea plantation, and I could look out my office window into Paul’s office. I was still unformed. He was ten years older than me and worldly; he courted various other women there, but we slowly warmed up to each other.

 

— Julia Child

 

Paul (her husband) on Julia…

A classy dame, brave about being an old maid! —Paul Child

 

Without Julia, I think I’d be a sour old bastard living off in a cave. — Paul Child

 

How fortunate we are at this moment in our lives! Each doing what he most wants, in a marvelously adapted place, close to each other, superbly fed and housed, with excellent health, and few interruptions. — Paul Child

 

We are never not together. — Paul Child

 

Julia on their marriage…

We are a team. — Julia Child

 

We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time. —Julia Child

 

I would go to school in the morning, then for lunch time, I would go home and make love to my husband. — Julia Child

 

Valentine cards had become a tradition of ours, born of the fact that we could never get ourselves organized in time to send out Christmas cards. —Julia Child

 

Interesting facts about Julia…

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  • Julia’s several nicknames as a child include “Juke,” “Juju” and “Jukies.”
    
  • “Boutez en Avant!” was one of Julia’s favorite sayings. It is French for “Charge ahead!”
    
  • In 1993, Julia became the first woman inducted into the Culinary Institute Hall of Fame.
    
  • Julia was fired from her first job at W&J Sloane due to “gross insubordination.”
    
  • When she found out that she was too tall to join the military (at 6’2″), Julia volunteered her services to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), where she helped develop shark repellent used on underwater explosives in WWII.
    
  • Declassified government documents reveal she wasn’t just sitting behind some type writer, taking dictation: Julia was a spy.
    
  • Her favorite comfort food was red meat and gin.
    
  • “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” was rejected by publishers several times before being published in 1961, a decade after Julia and her collaborators started working on it.
    
  • To save money, Paul designed their Cambridge kitchen himself. Mindful that his tall wife had been stooping in their tiny European kitchens, Paul raised the counters, figured out the perfect place for every pot and pan, and drew its outline on the pegboard.
    
  • She helped establish the American Institute of Wine and Food, and later, Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food, and the Arts.
    

Julia faced the same challenges and stereotypes as today’s virgins and waiters…

Although she met her husband Paul in the early 1940’s, he was at first reluctant to pursue her because of her virginity.

 

Paul’s letters pegged Julia as a “grown-up little girl … trying to be brave about being an old maid.” He liked her “pleasantly crazy sense of humor” but was put off by her virginity. — USA Today

 

And even considered her unworldly and naïve.

 

Paul thought Julia unworldly, unfocused, and doubtless a virgin—”a hungry hayseed” is how she would describe herself—but also steady, game, a “classy dame,” and “brave, about being an old maid!” — Vanity Fair

 

Yet like many waiters today, that was a misconception. Julia had gone on dates, had “crushes” and had even been proposed to in 1941. She also worked and traveled as a top secret research operative for the Office of Strategic Services where she earned the Emblem of Meritorious Civilian Service.

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[MrMiniver]

She also had problems with gay people -- like many of her generation -- and could quite intolerant about it but it softened a bit as she got older.

[Moondance]

She also had problems with gay people -- like many of her generation -- and could be quite intolerant about it but it softened a bit as she got older.

 

People evolve. It's one of the better opportunities of a long life.

[Rudynate]

She also had problems with gay people -- like many of her generation -- and could quite intolerant about it but it softened a bit as she got older.

 

I knew a guy years ago who sued her for discriminatory hiring practices. He had been offered a job with her organization as a marketing executive. They then withdrew the offer. Amazingly, they admitted it was because he was gay, so he wasted no time in suing them.