Helmer: It’s exasperating! Can you forsake your holiest duties in this way?
Nora: What do you call my holiest duties?
Helmer: Do you ask me that? Your duties to your husband and children.
Nora: I have other duties equally sacred.
Helmer: Impossible! What duties do you mean?
Nora: My duties toward myself.
Helmer: Before all else you are a wife and a mother.
Nora: That I no longer believe. I think that before all else I am a human being, just as much as you are—or, at least, I will try to become one. I know that most people agree with you, Torvald, and that they say so in books. But henceforth I can’t be satisfied with what most people say, and what is in books. I must think things out for myself and try to get clear about them…

- A Doll House; Henrik Ibsen