Lisa Genova
Lisa Genova is an American novelist and neuroscientist, born on November 22, 1970.
Genova was educated at Bates College and later at Harvard University. These two institutions mark the arc of her formal education, and she has pursued work both as a writer of fiction and as a neuroscientist.
Her notable work is Still Alice. As a novelist, Genova holds that title alongside her identity as a scientist, an unusual combination that places her across two distinct fields of practice.
Her career as a writer and her training as a neuroscientist together define how she is identified publicly. Still Alice remains the work most directly associated with her name, and her dual role as novelist and neuroscientist continues to characterize her as an American writer.
Quotes by Lisa Genova
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This is why mothers have more babies. We forget about the pain and discomfort and wild inconvenience of pregnancy and childbirth so we can feel that heavenly feeling of holding a warm baby snuggled and content against our chests again. It’s like nothing else in this world.
Her baby boy would play little league baseball, star in the school play and be good at math. She didn’t know then that she should have had much simpler dreams for her beautiful son, that she should have looked upon her newborn baby boy and thought ‘I hope you learn to talk and use the bathroom by the time you’re seven.
Voleva uccidersi. Pensieri impulsivi di suicidio le si presentarono rapidi e con forza, allontanando e spingendo via ogni altra idea, intrappolandola per giorni in un angolo oscuro e disperato.
Jazz improvisation is a speech without a script. It’s twelve notes and doing anything she pleases. There are no rules, no boundaries. Verbs don’t have to follow nouns. There is no gravity. Up can be down.
But reading her journals has helped her to remember more than that morning. There was more to Anthony’s life than his death. And there was more to Anthony than his autism. So much more. She can think about Anthony now and not be consumed by autism or grief.
