There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
Henrik IbsenHelmer: "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."
Henrik IbsenMrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.
Henrik IbsenHELMER; But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself.
Henrik Ibsen