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I was spending most of my summers in Greece when I was a little girl, and at boarding school my first room-mate was Greek, so I guess I kind of had that Greek destiny.

From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.

I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.