Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.

Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.

It's always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I'm especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a young student who is inspired to write me and let me know that my book has helped him or her find her way.

Reading and thoughtfulness and openness are the best way, I should think, to begin to address the richness that is in each of us.

I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.

Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane and human vision.

Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.