10/11/2005
Rita Levi Montalcini
I have forgotten yesterday to tell you this. On Saturday I have had de pleasure to attend a conference of Rita Levi Montalcini. She is the winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
She is now an old woman, she was born on 1909. But I find on her a energetic woman who knows is at the end of her days in this world. She has some health problems but she continues working.
I think there's a sentence in her autobiography that defines how is she: "At twenty, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father, and I asked him permission to engage in a professional career"
In my opinion she is really a small-big woman.
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That must have been an interesting lecture! These powerful women always call my attention, but isn't it a little unfair to say that she is at the end of her days? If she has always been working hard and is still working hard now, which is the difference? What did she say that you thought so?
Posted by: naraida | 12/11/2005
Rita said: "Now, I'm at the end of the way..." and things like that but not one time, several times.
So, it makes me think like this.
Posted by: Nuroma | 12/11/2005
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