The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.

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.

My motto - sans limites.

Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.

Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply 'In my mother's womb, probably as a result of the oysters and Champagne.'

What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life