I do not teach children, I give them joy.

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

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

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.

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

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.'