. She was the first deafblind
person to earn a Bachelor of Arts
degree.
The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker
.
A prolific author, Keller was well-traveled, and was outspoken in her opposition to war.
The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart. We sightless children had the best of eyes that day in our hearts and in our finger-tips. We were glad from the child's necessity of being happy. The blind who have outgrown the child's perpetual joy can be children again on Christmas Day and celebrate in the midst of them who pipe and dance and sing a new song!
The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction.
We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.