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

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.

Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them

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.

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

You've been thinking about something without willing to for a long time...Then, all of a sudden, the problem is opened to you in a flash and you suddenly see the answer.

It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future.