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  • Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply 'In my mother's womb, probably as a result of the oysters and Champagne.'

    Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.1, W. W. Norton & Company