HELMER: Ah, you think and speak like a foolish child...

NORA: Perhaps. But you neither think nor speak like the man I would want to be beside. As soon as your panic passed – not for what threatened me, but for what would crush you – and when all the dangers disappeared, you began to treat me again as if nothing had happened – no cat, no damage! Suddenly, as if by magic, I became your little songbird again, your doll, which you would hold in your hands with a thousand precautions, fearing that something would happen to her and she would break! (She gets up.) Torvald, now I realize that I lived with a stranger for eight years, and that I had three children with him – I am going crazy! I am tearing my flesh into a thousand pieces...

[From the explosive climax at the end of the play, with Nora breaking the chains of Marriage...]