First they ask me to tell the life of the child who is mother to the woman. Then they make me my own daughter and ask for an account of grown-up sens… - Helen Keller

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First they ask me to tell the life of the child who is mother to the woman. Then they make me my own daughter and ask for an account of grown-up sensations. Finally I am requested to write about my dreams, and thus I become an anachronical grandmother; for it is the special privilege of old age to relate dreams.

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About Helen Keller

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American writer and social activist; an illness (possibly scarlet fever or meningitis) at the age of 19 months left her deaf and blind.

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Birth Name: Helen Adams Keller

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Me parece que la mayor dificultad estriba en escribir con el estilo adecuado al grado de cultura de nuestra inteligencia y expresar nuestras ideas confusas, nuestros pensamientos mitad sentimientos que son los que reinan en nosotros, cuando todavía no somos, en cierto modo, sino un compuesto de tendencias instintivas. Escribir se parece mucho a intentar resolver un rompecabezas chino. Tenemos en la mente un dibujo que deseamos reproducir con palabras; pero las palabras no encajan en los huecos, o, si encajan, no concuerdan con el diseño. Pero seguimos intentándolo, porque sabemos que otros lo han logrado, y no estamos dispuestos a reconocer la derrota.

One of my Swiss ancestors was the first teacher of the deaf in Zurich and wrote a book on the subject of their education-rather a singular coincidence; though it is true that there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

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