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… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love -… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
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… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share
