Rita Levi-Montalcini Quotes

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

Rita Levi-Montalcini

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

  

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  • Developed
  • Adolescent
  • Altogether