Isadora Duncan
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"Angela Isadora Duncan" was an American dancer. Born in California, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50. She performed to acclaim throughout Europe after being exiled from the United States for her pro-Soviet sympathies.

Duncan's fondness for flowing scarves contributed to her death in an automobile accident in Nice, France, when she was a passenger in an Amilcar. Her silk scarf, draped around her neck, became entangled around the open-spoked wheels and rear axle, breaking her neck. In 1987, she was inducted into the National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame/National Museum of Dance's Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame.

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The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

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.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

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.

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

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.

My motto - sans limites.