Isadora Duncan

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.