If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter. Nia Vardalos More Quotes by Nia Vardalos More Quotes From Nia Vardalos There's a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you're alone in what you're going through, and none of us are alone. We're all going through the same thing. Nia Vardalos alone feeling you sometimes The candid and honest and pure heartedness of children has strengthened my views that we are all equal and should be afforded the basic human rights that we all deserve. Nia Vardalos candid human-rights deserve children Don't settle; don't compromise. Freeze your eggs, get your sociology doctorate, worry more about war and pestilence and the incredible inequality of geographical birth than finding your soulmate. Nia Vardalos your inequality worry war We were so unprepared that when my husband took off to get groceries, and we'd adopted a 3-year-old, he came back with baby formula, a steak and a teething ring. We had no idea what we were doing. But you learn. There's no way to fully prepare. Just eyes wide open - jump. Nia Vardalos eyes you husband baby I believe that there are moments in everyone's lives where a door flings open, and if you're terrified of what's on the other side, you must walk through it. Nia Vardalos walk you moments believe It was a sad process for me to become a mom, and a long process. I felt so embarrassed that I couldn't have a biological child. Nia Vardalos me sad mom long I have found that every family has a strange remedy for any situation - from 'Use Fantastic to get the scuff off your patent leather shoes!' to 'Soak an aspirin in a glass of water to get rid of a migraine.' Nia Vardalos situation shoes family water I did go through a bit of a dark time during the years I was trying to be a mom. But I'm basically a very positive person. Nia Vardalos mom dark time positive The media was always so focused on the money a movie makes. But I was in Times Square, and a bunch of Japanese tourists looked at me and started shouting, 'Toula!' I loved it. It's these tiny moments of connection that register with me the most and always have. Nia Vardalos loved me money moments 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.' Nia Vardalos day me daughter mother I consider myself a fearless idiot. Nia Vardalos consider myself fearless idiot Our daughter was not damaged or hurt in any way. She was simply relinquished to foster care by two people who were not ready to be parents. I admire them for giving her the chance for a better life. And I am grateful they gave my husband and me the opportunity to be parents. Nia Vardalos me grateful daughter life Like most women, I thought it would be easy once I decided to start a family. I was surprised that Mother Nature kept poking me in the eye, saying, 'Nope, nope, nope.' Nia Vardalos me family nature mother I was in a fertility situation publicly, so I disappeared. I was very satisfied just being to able to creatively express myself with writing. The white hot publicity that came from 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' was appreciated but not sought, so I was happy to walk away from it and then write. Nia Vardalos walk myself hot happy You're not ethnic enough. You're not fat enough. You're not thin enough. You're not blond enough. You're not dark enough. You're not young enough. You're not old enough. Nia Vardalos fat you enough dark
