To Dance Is To Live. What I

With What Price We Pay For The Glory Of Motherhood.

The Dancer's Body Is Simply The Luminous Manifestation Of The Soul.

Anybody Can And Should Dance... It's Good For The Body And The Spirit.

The Dancer Will Not Belong To A Nation But To All Humanity.

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 Mother's Womb, Probably As A Result Of The Oysters And Champagne.'