Dance Quote by Amanda Foreman

Foot-binding, which started out as a fashionable impulse, became an expression of Han identity after the Mongols invaded China in 1279. The fact that…

— Amanda Foreman

“But her greatest assets were her bound feet, called in Chinese "three-inch golden lilies" (san-tsun-gin-lian). This meant she walked "like a tender young willow…

— Jung Chang

“Shoes were invented by the Sith to keep our delicate toes in anguish and misery, I'm sure of it." -Tahiri Veila (Edge of Victory:…

— Greg Keyes

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

— John Dryden

When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.

— Twyla Tharp

“Bound feet symbolize torture of women for men’s pleasure.”

— S.J. Friedman

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

— Dean Acheson

“The Tao of Physics and The Dancing Wu-Lei Masters,”

— Robert P. Lanza

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

— Mary Jo Putney

“The feet and their tapping Write many a lovely couplet The body dances to your rhythm O lord After all, you are the master…

— Neelam Saxena Chandra

Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to…

— Tatsumi Hijikata

“The thing about a man with a foot fetish… Is he grows bored of feet that is constantly walking on eggshells! Be yourself!”

— Author Saidah Brown