"Humanity is made of both men and women, it has to be represented by both sexes."

Rita Levi Montalcini was born in Turin, on April the 22nd, 1909. She won the Nobel prize in 1986 (Medicine) because of her studies in Neurology, the National Medal of Science (Biology) in 1987 and she's the first woman scientist to win the Max Weinstein prize. 

Even though both parents encouraged the girl's intellectual research, her father thought that a professional career could not coexist with the duties of a mother and a wife. But Rita did go to University, graduate and continued her researches in the neurology fields, and never got married nor had kids, choosing to dedicate her life to science.

Her research opened the doors of the understanding of the cellular and organic growth, playing an important role in the fight against cancer, and diseases such as Alzheimer and Parkinson. 

"My body can do whatever it wants. I'm not the body; I'm the mind."

Now she's 103 years old.