Marie Curie Quote

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

Instructions regarding a proposed gift of a wedding dress for her marriage to Pierre in July 1895

As quoted in ''Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, as translated by Vincent Sheean, p. 137

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can ...

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can ...

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can ...

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can ...