Isadora Duncan

“My motto: sans limites.”

“What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.”

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

“It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of conc...”

“Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see the line and harmony of the body beneath, and d...”

“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.”

“We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.”

“Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.”

“It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of conce...”

“The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.”

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

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

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

“It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.”

“With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.”

“My motto - sans limites.”

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

“Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?”

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