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After centuries of dormancy, young women can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.
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I never had any hesitation or regrets in this sense. My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.
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It is imperfection — not perfection — that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.
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At 100, I have a mind that is superior — thanks to experience — than when I was 20.
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The allegations against Fidia cannot be true. The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.
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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.
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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.
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Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.
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Rita Levi-Montalcini
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Born:
April 22, 1909
Died:
December 30, 2012
(aged 103)
Bio:
Rita Levi-Montalcini was an Italian Nobel Laureate honored for her work in neurobiology. She was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with colleague Stanley Cohen for the discovery of nerve growth factor.
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