True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.
Helen KellerIf we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.
Helen KellerThe woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.
Helen KellerWe have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.
Helen Keller