Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.

Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

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.

Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

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."

The devil is compromise.