“My daughter became my enemy when she had to choose between me and you. And you, my wife, you have been my… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“LAURA. Suppose that I was prepared to bear anything, even to being despised and driven out, everything for the sake of being… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! .... The supposed… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“If the child is not mine I have no control over her and don’t want to have any, and that is precisely… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“My child? A man has no children, it is only woman who has children, and therefore the future is hers when we… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“This house is full of women who all want to have their say about my child.” — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“And why does man weep when he is sad? I asked at last—Because the glass in the eyes must be washed now… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“LAURA. Because the mother is closer to the child, as it has been discovered that no one can tell for a certainty… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“a man must take his children on trust—isn’t that what Goethe says?* CAPTAIN” — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“Because the child bound us together; but the link became a chain.” — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“THE DAUGHTER: You named the earth—is that the ponderous world And dark, that from the moon must take its light? THE VOICE:… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“NURSE. There, there, there. A father has something besides his child, but a mother has nothing but her child. CAPTAIN.” — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in a hereafter; the child was my future life. That was my conception of immortality, and perhaps the… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common! — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“It appears from these letters that for some time past you have been arraying my old friends against me by spreading reports about my… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“LAWYER. Justice that destroys itself in seeking to be just!— — —Right, that so often fosters wrong!!! DAUGHTER” — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“CAPTAIN. Well, you dear, have I forgotten it? You have been like a mother to me, and always have stood by me when I… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“My daughter became my enemy when she had to choose between me and you. And you, my wife, you have been my archenemy, because… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
