Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.

The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.

The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.

If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world.

As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.

We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.

With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.