...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

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.

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."

It is no use lying to one's self.

In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.