The dancer of the future will be one whose body & soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of the soul will have become the movement of the body.

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

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.

Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.

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

I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.