"I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!"
Helen Keller was an American author, lecturer, and disability rights advocate who became deafblind in infancy. She was the first deafblind person in the United States to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. Her life and education with Anne Sullivan became internationally known through her writings and public advocacy.