The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche. – Isadora Duncan
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. – Isadora Duncan
The dancers body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. – Isadora Duncan
I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me. – Isadora Duncan
Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply, In my mothers womb, probably as a result of the oysters and champagne – the food of Aphrodite. – Isadora Duncan