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 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.
A Girl Strike-Leader
By Florence Kiper Frank
(American poetess, born 1886)
A white-faced, stubborn little thing
Whose years are not quite twenty years,