Rita Levi-Montalcini Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.”

“I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a roundabout way... He listened, looking at me with that serious and penetrating gaze of his that caused me such trepidation, and asked whether I knew what I wanted to do.”

“My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.”

“At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.”

“The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.”

“A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.”

“The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.”