It is unheard-of, uncivilized barbarism that any woman should still be forced to bear such monstrous torture. It should be remedied. It should be stopped. It is simply absurd that, with our modern science, painless childbirth does not exist as a matter of course.... I tremble with indignation when I think ofthe unspeakable egotism and blindness of men of science who permit such atrocities when they can be remedied.

If we seek the real source of the dance, if we go to nature, we find that the dance of the future is the dance of the past, the dance of eternity, and has been and always will be the same... The movement of waves, of winds, of the earth is ever the same lasting harmony.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

Anybody can and should dance... It's good for the body and the spirit.

No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.