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.

If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.

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.

As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of bizarre evolutionary gene expression.

The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.

Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.

I tell young people: Do not think of yourself, think of others. Think of the future that awaits you, think about what you can do and do not fear anything.