Mata Hari

I have never betrayed anyone. I have only loved.

I am ready to die. I have lived my life as I wanted.

My life has been a long chain of sorrows and disappointments.

I am not a spy, but I am certainly a woman of pleasure.

I have been accused of being a German spy. It is a lie. I am Dutch.

I am a woman of the world. I have no country.

I loved men, and I let them love me. That is all.

My only crime was to be a free woman.

I never worked for the Germans. I only took their money.

I embraced the world. I lived for pleasure. I died for freedom.

I dance to forget.

I am a woman of passion, not of politics.

They want to make an example of me.

My beauty is my weapon.

I am not afraid of death. I have faced worse.

My heart belongs to my art, and my body to those who appreciate it.

I was born to be free, not to be a prisoner.

I have always followed my own path, even if it leads to destruction.

To dance is to live.

They say I am a dangerous woman. Perhaps I am.