Legendary author Helen Keller shared her perspective on security, suggesting that it is more of a superstition than a natural state of existence. According to the social activist, the concept of safety is primarily a superstition and essentially absent.
Quote of the day by Helen Keller: “Safety is mostly a superstition. It doesn’t exist in nature” — from “The Open Door”
A renowned writer who lost her sight and hearing after a bout of illness in childhood, she was undeterred by life’s difficulties and became the first deaf-blind person in the United States to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama
Born in 1880 in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, to Arthur Henley Keller, an army captain and editor, and Catherine Everett Keller, Helen Keller had four siblings.
Her first teacher, Anne Sullivan, entered her life as a guardian angel, teaching Keller speech, reading and writing, and remained her lifelong companion for nearly 50 years. She received her bachelor’s degree from Radcliffe College in 1904. She wrote a total of 14 books and hundreds of speeches and essays during her lifetime.
Eventually, Keller became a world-renowned speaker, author, and advocate for people with disabilities, traveling the world to give motivational speeches about the plight of the deaf. A suffragist, pacifist, Christian socialist, advocate of contraception, and opponent of Woodrow Wilson, she was friends with several famous people, including Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin, and Mark Twain.
