Before I Was Born My Mother Was

Farewell My Friends, I Go To Glory.

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 Who Permit Such Atrocities When They Can Be Remedied.

The Noblest Art Is The Nude. This Truth Is Recognized By All, And Followed By Painters, Sculptors And Poets. Only The Dancer Has Forgotten It, Who Should Remember It, As The Instrument Of [the Dance] Art Is The Human Body Itself.

A Dancer, If She Is Great, Can Give To The People Something That They Can Carry With Them Forever. They Can Never Forget It, And It Has Changed Them, Though They May Never Know It.

I Was Born By The Sea, And I Have Noticed That All The Great Events Of My Life Have Taken Place By The Sea. My First Idea Of Movement, Of The Dance, Certainly Came From The Rhythm Of The Waves.