A mother in modern society, like certain insects who go away and die when she has done her duty in the propagation of the race.[En moder i nutidens samfund, ligesom visse insekter gå hen og do når hun har gjort sin pligt til slægtcns forplanteise.]
Source:Notes for the Modern Tragedy (October 19, 1878); The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen (ed. William Heinemann, 1907), Volume XII, Page 91