Isadora Duncan Quotes

"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."
-Isadora Duncan

"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences."
-Isadora Duncan in Marriage quotes.

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

"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."
-Isadora Duncan

"The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking."
-Isadora Duncan

"My motto - sans limites."
-Isadora Duncan