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Helen Keller

1880–1968
Helen Keller

Major works:
The Story of My Life (1903) • My Key of Life: Optimism (1904) • The World I Live In (1908) • Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy (1955) • The Open Door (1957)

“Helen Keller is fellow to Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, Homer, Shakespeare, and the rest of the immortals. . . . She will be as famous a thousand years from now as she is today.”
—Mark Twain

“The greatest woman of our age.”
—Winston Churchill

“One of the few persons born not to die.”
—Senator Lister Hill

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