NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.

I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them.

Oh, life would be all right if we didn't have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.