... literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
ATTRIBUTION:
Helen Keller (1880–1968), U.S. author. The Story of My Life, ch. 21 (1905).
Keller was rendered deaf and blind at the age of nineteen months. But in 1904, she had graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College.
