“Now, after my confession, I felt battered, like one of those dolls that always bounces back up when hit. But here's the thing - those silly dolls get hit all the more for it.”
Source: Poison Princess
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St. 25.
The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)

Nora Helmer, Act III
Variant translation: Our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls. I thought it great fun when you played with me, just as they thought it great fun when I played with them. That is what our marriage has been, Torvald.
A Doll's House (1879)
Context: But our home's been nothing but a playpen. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Papa's doll-child. And in turn the children have been my dolls. I thought it fun when you played with me, just as they thought it fun when I played with them. That's been our marriage, Torvald.

“I enjoy getting dressed as a Barbie doll.”
Source: Laura K. McClure (2008), Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World. p. 164

I found this to be true.
Kingston, p. 8
Vokes - My Story (1985)

“They made hypocrite judgments after the fact,
But the name of the game is be hit and hit back.”
"Boom Boom Mancini"
Sentimental Hygiene (1987)

“I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house.”
Bk. I, Ch. 55
Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865)