This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.

The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action.

If you are living for an ideal and driving yourself as hard as you can to be perfect - at your job or as a mother or as a perfect wife - you lose the natural, slow rythmn of life. There's a rushing, trying to attain the ideal; the slower pace of the beat of the earth, the state where you simply are, is forgotten

The more you work with your dreams and your unconscious, and honor it, the more you understand it and it understands you. When you develop a relationship with your psyche this way, you begin to carry that energy into life and your relationships.

Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.

But if you travel far enough, one day you will recognize yourself coming down to meet yourself. And you will say - yes.

It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.