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At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people; nurture the belief that they can do things.

On my daughter's first day of kindergarten, another mom said something that made me realize I had become my own Greek, suffocating mother. She said, 'Just think, in 13 years they'll leave us and go to college!' And I went, 'Gulp.'

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

It's complicated coming from a culture where to be a mother is more important than to have a career.

He was not like Greek fathers. He didn't tell us to get married. My father thought it was very important that we travel, learn languages, be educated.

It's impossible to put yourself first when you're a mom.

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

I went to a basic school, which had children from all corners of the world, and met my best friend and had to learn Greek because she didn't speak English.

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.