“I read "King Lear" soon after "Macbeth," and I shall never forget the feeling of horror when I came to the scene in which Gloster's eyes are put out. Anger seized me, my fingers refused to move, I sat rigid for one long moment, the blood throbbing in my temples, and all the hatred that a child can feel concentrated in my heart.”

— Helen Keller, book The Story of My Life

Source: The Story of My Life (1903), Ch. 21

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American author and political activist 1880–1968

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