“Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the moments passed all too fast. Life whizzed by; she no longer had time to recollect it.… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
“Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
“In February, 1943, eight months before she was murdered in Auschwitz, the German painter Charlotte Salomon killed her grandfather. Salomon’s grandparents, like many Jews,… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
“A man must have confidence in himself and his cock, to fuck a woman in the ass. If he does not have this control,… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
“Women are taught that size doesn't matter, that it's the motion in the ocean. But this is a theory propagated by those bright guys… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
To live and to laugh require a reason. But dancing is so close to one's guts that it has no reason and yet it… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
We live only to dance. If living were not an essential prerequisite, we would abstain. — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
I recognized it immediately the first time it happened - the cackle of the crone. It is the sound of a woman who is… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
“It's my hurt, my pain, and who are you to take it from me? I don't need rescuing, I don't need pity, I don't… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed. — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
If a man can possess a woman sexually -really possess- he won't need to control her ideas, her opinions, her clothes, her friends, even… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
Dancing may not be the perfect substitute for love, human love, but it certainly requires all the time and thought and energy that could… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment. — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
