The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

Quote by Isadora Duncan

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With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in...

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in...

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is...

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is...

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a...

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a...

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

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

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated...

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated...

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any...

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any...

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America....

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America....

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make...

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make...

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all...

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all...

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they...

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they...

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of...

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of...

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

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

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

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make...

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make...