"My dances are sacred. They are prayers. I am a priestess."

"I did what a woman does in such circumstances when she wants to make a conquest of a gentleman, and I soon realized… Kalle was mine."

"I am not a German spy! I am a Dutch woman, and a dancer. I have many friends in Germany, but that does not make me a spy."

"I am a victim of circumstance, a pawn in a game I do not understand."

"I regret nothing, except perhaps that I did not live long enough to dance for the whole world."