sole à la normande, - Julia Child

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.

As Therese Asche used to say “A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine.

Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' though. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.