When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin…

- Olympia Dukakis

When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children go…

- Olympia Dukakis

Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.

- Olympia Dukakis

Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters…

- Olympia Dukakis

Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about…

- Olympia Dukakis

Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

- Olympia Dukakis

I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.

- Olympia Dukakis

I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a…

- Olympia Dukakis

What you don't know about women is alot.

- Olympia Dukakis