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. Rita Levi-Montalcini Read Quote
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. Rita Levi-Montalcini Read Quote
Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls. Rita Levi-Montalcini Read Quote
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. Rita Levi-Montalcini Read Quote
The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had. Rita Levi-Montalcini Read Quote
My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely. Rita Levi-Montalcini Read Quote
The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted. Rita Levi-Montalcini Read Quote
After centuries of dormancy, young women… can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands. Rita Levi-Montalcini Read Quote
At 100, I have a mind that is superior – thanks to experience – than when I was 20. Rita Levi-Montalcini Read Quote
I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country… No other country has such human capital. Rita Levi-Montalcini Read Quote
