Life
Fiona Stanley was born in Sydney, New South Wales. She loved reading about people like Marie Curie and through her father, who was a researcher on polio, she met Dr Jonas Salk. Stanley has said of her childhood that "in my dreams I would sail out to all the undiscovered islands and inoculate the inhabitants in a whirlwind race to conquer disease and pestilence".
In 1956 the family moved to Western Australia when Stanley's father took the Foundation Chair of Microbiology at the University of Western Australia. She went to St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls before studying Medicine at the University of Western Australia, graduating in 1970.
She married Geoffrey Shellam, who later occupied the same Chair of Microbiology that her father had occupied. They have two daughters.
Read more about this topic: Fiona Stanley
Famous quotes containing the word life:
“Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can’t long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)
“If a man was tossed out of a window when an infant, and so made a cripple for life, or scared out of his wits by the Indians, it is regretted chiefly because he was thus incapacitated for—business! I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)