Wendy Buonaventura Quotes & Sayings

What I have to tell you is this: I am resolved that dancing is to be my path. I know that to be a dancer is to be considered in our world little more than a prostitute. But you cannot imagine what is happening here in Berlin. It is different back home, but in Europe dance is being reborn as something more than cheap entertainment by loose women. — Wendy Buonaventura

My respect for the law was diminishing with every exchange. Dickens was right. The law is an ass, and I was starting to think that people are asses as well. — Wendy Buonaventura

It was perfectly instinctive. I knew if I said I was a dancer he'd have made certain assumptions. I've been receiving this response more and more from men. They look me up and down as if they're looking straight through my clothes and it makes my heart beat with rage. — Wendy Buonaventura

Dancing's not work. You can't call it work. A day I don't dance is a day I don't live. — Wendy Buonaventura

In today's newspaper there was a story about a married clergyman with three children who is calling for all sex to be declared un-Christian. He says lifelong virginity is the ideal for Christians. I wonder, has he told his wife and children this? — Wendy Buonaventura