Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.

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

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man.

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

The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.