I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

The old terms must be invented with new meaning and given new explanations. Liberty, equality, and fraternity are no longer what they were in the days of the late-lamented guillotine. This is what the politicians will not understand; and that is why I hate them. They want only their own special revolutions- external revolutions, political revolutions, etc. But that is only dabbling. What is really needed is a revolution of the human spirit.

Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being."

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.