With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

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"Dancing: The highest intelligence in the freest body."

- Isadora Duncan

Creativity

"You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you."

- Isadora Duncan

Self-confidence

"You were wild once. Don’t let them tame you."

- Isadora Duncan

Self-confidence

"Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual."

- Isadora Duncan

Connection to Earth

"There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul."

- Isadora Duncan

Philosophy

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

Adversity

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

Adversity

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity