About Millionaires, Marriage and Children: Five Tips from Isadora Duncan

Her dances were unique because they were based on the movements of dancers from ancient Greece. Isadora Duncan's thoughts and convictions were no less unique, for she insisted that a woman could and should be free. This was unprecedented audacity for the era in which she lived and created, but after all, creators are characterized by a certain audacity...

Here are five tips/rules from Isadora Duncan. Some of them may seem peculiar, but she was just like that, peculiar and creative.

1. The way on their own feet.

Great dancer was not able to fully experience the joy of motherhood - her two children from her first marriage died after being rolled in the river in a broken-down car, a son, born a few years later, lived only a couple of hours, and maternally, she could relate only to her students (Duncan has adopted six of them). Despite this, she had a clearly formed method of raising children. "The best inheritance you can leave a child is the ability to make your own way on your own feet," the dancer said, referring to the pernicious desire of parents to control every step of their children and to shift the responsibility that should rest solely on the child. Moderate freedom and age-appropriate responsibility, according to Duncan, is necessary for the child to develop independence.

2. school is not so helpful.

"It seems to me that the general education a child receives in school is absolutely useless," the dancer confidently declared. A controversial statement, but in any statement there is cernell of truth...

Without a millionaire there is nowhere to go.

"The society of a millionaire certainly makes travel much easier," said Isadora. Sadly, we have no way of knowing how seriously she meant it, but it's a much harder statement to argue with than the last one, isn't it?

4. if you want to do it, do it.

"I could never understand ... why if someone wants to do something, why doesn't he do it," similar (but different words) have been said by many other famous people. In general, it's simple - if there is an impulse to do something, you should definitely follow that impulse, so that you don't regret the missed opportunity.

5. Marriage = slavery.

"I believed then, and I still believe now, that marriage is a meaningless and slavish institution," Duncan shared her point of view. In her view, marriage always and inevitably ends in a complete lack of love and respect for each other by the spouses, and divorce follows. Based on her own bitter experience and experience of his entourage, the artist believed that the most rapid divorce doomed to unions that have arisen in couples, in which there is at least one creative person. In fact, even in our time, the statement that marriage necessarily brings misfortune has many supporters, because the mass media imposed exclusively positive representation of marriage, without mentioning its opposite side.