Geisha Culture Quotes

For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.

From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments.

The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training.

A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.

To be a geisha, you have to have to an iron-clad layer around you - around your physical body and your heart.

She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.

What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.

Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status — like geisha girls do

I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.