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

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.

I do not teach children, I give them joy.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.