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Isadora Duncan Quotes about Children

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I do not teach children, I give them joy.

I do not teach children, I give them joy.

Isadora Duncan
Children, Teaching, Learning

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

Isadora Duncan
Children, Feet, Giving
Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

I wonder how many parents realize that by the so-called education they are giving their children, they are only driving them into the commonplace, and depriving them of any chance of doing anything beautiful or original.

Isadora Duncan
Beautiful, Children, Giving
Isadora Duncan (1927). “My life”

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

Isadora Duncan
Love, Peace, Children

I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.

Isadora Duncan
Crush, Children, Joy
Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to support the children?' It seems to me that if the marriage ceremony is needed as a protection to insure the enforced support of children, then you are marrying a man who, you suspect, would under certain conditions, refuse to support his children, and it is a pretty low-down proposition. For you are marrying a man whom you already suspect of being a villain. But I have not so poor an opinion of men that I believe the greater percentage of them to be such low specimens of humanity.

Isadora Duncan
Children, Believe, Men

I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.

Isadora Duncan
Girl, Children, Memories
Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.5, W. W. Norton & Company

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