Find first peace within yourself. Don't eat too much. Keep your brain active. Love.

I should thank Mussolini for having declared me to be of an inferior race. This led me to the joy of working, not any more unfortunately, in university institutes but in a bedroom.

My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.

Find first peace within yourself. Don't eat too much. Keep your brain active. Love.

The body does whatever it wants. I am not my body; I am my mind.

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

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.