The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest / The writings of philosophers, poets, novelists, social reformers, and others who have voiced the struggle against social injustice; selected from twenty-five languages; covering a period of five thousand years

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Helmer:—Nora! Nora!

Nora:—I am going at once. Christina will take me for tonight.

Helmer:—You are mad! I shall not allow it. I forbid it.

Nora:—It is no use your forbidding me anything now. I shall take with me what belongs to me. From you I will accept nothing, either now or afterwards....

Helmer:—To forsake your home, your husband, and your children! You don’t consider what the world will say.

Nora:—I can pay no heed to that. I only know what I must do.

Helmer:—It is exasperating! Can you forsake your holiest duties in this world?

Nora:—What do you call my holiest duties?

Helmer:—Do you ask me that? Your duties to your husband and your children.