So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter!

When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.

God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.