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“Remember, Chiyo, geisha are not courtesans. And we are not wives. We sell our skills, not our bodies. We create another secret world, a place only of beauty. The very word ‘geisha’ means artist and to be a geisha is to be judged as a moving work of art.”

Jun, 03 6956 via · source have yet to watch this movie but the book was lots of things film memoirs of a geisha