When I try to classify my earliest impressions, I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present. The woman paints the child's experience in her own fantasy.

More from Helen Keller

• Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
• I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
• I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.
• I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
• It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
• It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. On flying around the world