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Rita Levi-Montalcini

Rita Levi-Montalcini, OMRI, OMCA (Italian pronunciation: [ˈriːta ˈlɛːvi montalˈtʃiːni]; 22 April 1909 – 30 December 2012) was an Italian Nobel laureate, honored for her work in neurobiology. She was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with colleague Stanley Cohen for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF). From 2001 until her death, she also served in the Italian Senate as a Senator for Life.

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If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same — it is the message you leave behind you that counts.

Behind You, Die, Message, Messages, Year, Years

After a short period spent in Brussels as a guest of a neurological institute, I returned to Turin on the verge of the invasion of Belgium by the German army, Spring 1940, to join my family. The two alternatives left then to us were either to emigrate to the United States, or to pursue some activity that needed neither support nor connection with the outside Aryan world where we lived. My family chose this second alternative. I then decided to build a small research unit at home and installed it in my bedroom.

Army, Aryan, Family, Home, Returned, Spring

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

Century, Chemical, Chemicals, Glassware, Projects, Reagents

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

Enough, Future, Past

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.

Father, Medicine, Mother, Serious, Way

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.

Cutting, Entirely, Men, Run, Running, Subordinate

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.

Bedroom, Inferior, Joy, Mussolini, Race

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.

Asked, Father, Latin, Mathematics, Possibly, School

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.

Awaits, Fear, People, Think, Thinking

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.

Answers, Flash, Long, See, Sudden, Thinking

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

Altogether, Babies, Baby, Girl, Girls, Maternal

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

Excellent, Felt, Human, Lonely, Relation, Work

Find first peace within yourself. Don't eat too much. Keep your brain active. Love.

Active, Brain, Firsts, Keep, Too Much

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

Inspirational, Encouraging, Uplifting, Fear, Difficult, Moments

It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.

Long, Perfection, Result, Years