During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown."

The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education (ed. The Floating Press, 2009) - ISBN: 9781775413936