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."

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.

I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately; but right it has not.

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.