For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories …

- Leah Hager Cohen

The ability to know one’s limitations, to recognize the bounds of one’s own comprehension—this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.

- Leah Hager Cohen

Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a t…

- Leah Hager Cohen

The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In…

- Leah Hager Cohen

The Dream Lover is a historical novel at once expansively researched yet intimately imagined. George Sand may be the ultimate Berg heroine. 'A life n…

- Leah Hager Cohen

In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all day long …

- Leah Hager Cohen

Who could ever tell a story complete?

- Leah Hager Cohen

Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds.

- Leah Hager Cohen

There is nowhere morning does not go.

- Leah Hager Cohen