A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man

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

Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.