To Awaken Human Emotion Is

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.

Man Must Speak, Then Sing, Then Dance. The Speaking Is The Brain, The Thinking Man. The Singing Is The Emotion. The Dancing Is The Dionysian Ecstasy Which Carries Away All.

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.

When I Was Sixteen, I Danced Before An Audience Without Music. At The End Someone Suddenly Cried 'its Death And The Maiden'. But That Was Not My Intention; I Was Only Endeavoring To Express My First Knowledge Of The Underlying Tragedy In All Seemingly Joyous Manifestation. The Dance According With My Comprehension, Should Have Been Called 'life And The Maiden'.

Any Intelligent Woman Who Reads The Marriage Contract, And Then Goes Into It, Deserves All The Consequences.