Once, toward the end of my stay, a student said to me, "Professor, we never think of you as being different from us. Our circumstances are different, but you're the same as us. We want you to know that we truly think of you as being the same." Today, if I could respond to my students with a letter of my own, which is of course impossible, I would tell them this:
Odată, spre sfârșitul șederii mele, un student mi-a spus: „Doamnă profesor, nu credem deloc că ați fi altfel decât noi.” „Circumstanțele noastre sunt diferite, dar sunteți la fel ca noi.” „Vrem să știți că vă considerăm exact la fel.” Astăzi, dacă le-aș putea răspunde printr-o scrisoare a mea, lucru desigur imposibil, le-aș spune așa: