Toni Bentley

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If a man can possess a woman sexually -really possess- he won't need to control her ideas, her opinions, her clothes, her friends, even her other lovers.
- Toni Bentley
Collection: Relationship
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I recognized it immediately the first time it happened - the cackle of the crone. It is the sound of a woman who is caught inside the mystery of the universe, in the irony of the angst, in the place ego abhors. Bliss.
- Toni Bentley
Collection: Ego
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To live and to laugh require a reason. But dancing is so close to one's guts that it has no reason and yet it needs none; it's physical, and as a source of good cheer it is end endless.
- Toni Bentley
Collection: Dance
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A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed.
- Toni Bentley
Collection: Shoes
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Dancing may not be the perfect substitute for love, human love, but it certainly requires all the time and thought and energy that could otherwise be dedicated to love.
- Toni Bentley
Collection: Dancing
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We live only to dance. If living were not an essential prerequisite, we would abstain.
- Toni Bentley
Collection: Essentials
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A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.
- Toni Bentley
Collection: Commitment