A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.

- Toni Bentley

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…

- Toni Bentley

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 …

- Toni Bentley

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 lov…

- Toni Bentley

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 sou…

- Toni Bentley

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

We live only to dance. If living were not an essential prerequisite, we would abstain.

- Toni Bentley