36 Quotes by Rita Levi-Montalcini

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

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

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

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

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.

I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country... No other country has such human capital.

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.

After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.

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.