Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

"Every artist is crazy with respect to ordinary life."

"I had sexlogic implanted and used it."

"We were people of a circle of supposed highcultivated life conduct by intellectual morality--higher than society in its hypocritical meshes."

"[I had] pushed through to a spiritual sex: art--that nobody protects as readily as a charming love body of flesh."

"All who want me would like to eat me up, But I am too expansive and am open to all sides, desire this here and that there."

"Everything emotional in America becomes a mere show and make-believe. Americans are trained to invest money, are said to take even desperate chances on that, yet never do they invest [in] beauty nor take desperate chances on that. With money they try to buy beauty--after it has died--famishing--with grimace. Beauty is ever dead in America."

"[The Baroness] is not a futurist. She is the future."

"People were afraid of her because she was undismayed about the facts of life--any of them--all of them."

"[The Baroness was] a citizen of terror, a contemporary without a country."

"Else von Freytag-Loringhoven is the first Dadaiste in New York and [...] the Little Review has discovered her. This movement should capture American like a prairie fire."