I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.

I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.