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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.

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Julia Child
Age: 91 †
Born: 1912
Born: August 15
Died: 2004
Died: August 13
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