What I Am Interested In Doing Is

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence In The Freest Body.

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 Was Born By The Sea, And I Have Noticed That All The Great Events Of My Life Have Taken Place By The Sea. My First Idea Of Movement, Of The Dance, Certainly Came From The Rhythm Of The Waves.

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.

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.'