Helen Keller — "I am not a little girl anymore. I am a woman, and I have a right to my own life."

"I can see, and that is why I can be so happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden."

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

"I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important, than those of blindness."

"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 …"

"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings."