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

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

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

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.

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

At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.

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