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Isadora Duncan Dancer

  • Gender: Female
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: May 27, 1877
  • Died: Sep 14, 1927

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's Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. experience

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. Mother's Day

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. experience

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. experience

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

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3 wisdom & wit from John Millington Synge

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28 wisdom & wit from William Butler Yeats

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27 wisdom & wit from Dave Barry

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. 74 other quotes from Winston Churchill

74 other quotes from Winston Churchill