“She doesn’t care what it means to be a dancer. What sacrifices it takes. And she knows that Mr. K will easily let me go. That I’m nothing. I can be replaced. Girls are a dime a dozen in ballet-not like the boys who are treated like princes. Another girl will be plucked from some audition somewhere.”

“She doesn’t care what it means to be a dancer. What sacrifices it takes. And she knows that Mr. K will easily let me go. That I’m nothing. I can be replaced. Girls are a dime a dozen in ballet-not like the boys who are treated like princes. Another girl will be plucked from some audition somewhere.”

— Sona Charaipotra