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 needs none; it's physical, and as a source of good cheer it is end endless. — 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
