“The women who changed the world never needed to show anything other than their own intelligence.”

—  Rita Levi-Montalcini

Source: Cited in Addio a Rita Levi Montalcini, scienziata e donna straordinaria http://www.panorama.it/scienza/rita-levi-montalcini-morta/, Panorama.it, 30 dicembre 2012.

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