QUOTES

 It is difficult to find quotations from women in history.  It is obvious that they were so wrongly held as second class to men.  One may think that our rapid advancement in technology and general knowledge is attributed to the rise of women in all facets of life.  Here I found quotes from Helen Keller.  She fell ill as a teenager and was struck deaf and blind for the rest of her life.  Helen became a writer and social activist. She was born in 1880 and died in 1968.

"Our democracy is but a name.  We vote?  What does that mean?  It means we choose between two bodies of real, but not avowed, autocrats.  We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee."

"The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important, than those of blindness."

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."

"... I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless."

"The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.  If it be true that optimism compels the world forward and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy. "

"Tolerance is the first principal of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think."

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope."

"A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships."