When I have needed solace and I have had to depend on my own resources, the mathematics has been there. I am grateful.

— Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Centenarian Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw—Conqueror of Magic Squares, Rubik's Cube and Mauna Kea

Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dame-kathleen-ollerenshaw/

Quoted in a Scientific American article about her.

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