Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

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

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

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.

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.