My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands,

My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.