“I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are …”

“I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.”

— Marie Curie

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Title: Wikiquote: Marie Curie
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Instructions regarding a proposed gift of a wedding dress for her marriage to Pierre in July 1895, as quoted in 'Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, as translated by Vincent Sheean, p. 137

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Curie, Marie. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Marie Curie. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

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