a dolls house quotations Flashcards
you have never loved me you have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me
pleasant
no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves.
it’s a thing hundreds and thousands of women have done
sacrifice
i must stand on my own two feet if i am to get to know myself and the world outside
feet
our home has been nothing but a playroom. i have been your doll wife just as at home i was papa’s doll child: and here the children have been my dolls
playroom
i only feel my life unspeakably empty. no one to live for anymore
empty
a woman who had once sold herself for another’s sake doesn’t do it a second time
sold
he’s so proud of being a man- it’d be so painful and humiliating for him to know he owed me anything
humiliating
i will protect you like a hunted dove that i have saved from a hawks claws
hunted
has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?
spendthrift
supposed we two shipwrecked souls could join hands?
shipwrecked
when a girls as pretty as i am
pretty
my little skylark
skylark
a wife cannot borrow without her husbands consent
consent
is a wife not to be allowed to save her husbands life?
allowed
it was like being a man
man
his manly independence
manly
an atmosphere of lies infects and poisons the whole life of a home
poisons
you can command me body and soul
command
your squirrel would run about and do all her tricks if you would be nice and do what she wants
tricks
the child (nora) shall have her way
child
can i never be anything more than a stranger to you?
stranger
i dare not trust them to you
trust
almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother
mother
it seems most commonly to be the mothers influence
influence
the matter must be hushed up at any cost
hushed
