Helmer.
To forsake your home, your husband, and your children! And you don't consider what the world will say.
Nora.
I can pay no heed to that. I only know that I must do it.
Helmer.
This is monstrous! Can you forsake your holiest duties in this way?
Nora.
What do you consider my holiest duties?
Helmer.
Do I need to tell you that? Your duties to your husband and your children.
Nora.
I have other duties equally sacred.
Helmer.
Impossible! What duties do you mean?
Nora.
My duties towards myself.
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, just as much as you are—or at least that I should try to become one. I know that most people agree with you, Torvald,