"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
— Marie Curie
Life Is Not Easy For Any
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
About this quote
Marie Curie wrote this in a letter to her sister Bronya around 1894, while she was a young student in Paris struggling to finance her studies and establish herself in science. The letter conveys the determination that would carry her through years of poverty, discrimination as a woman in science, and the physical toll of her radioactivity research. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and physicist Henri Becquerel.
Source
Letter to her sister Bronya, c. 1894
