Quotes about Responsibility

Sorry solves nothing.

Some called it Eve's curse but she thought that was stupid, and the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam, who as soon as there was any trouble, blamed it all on her.

but they mean well, I remind myself. Is that ever a convincing excuse when there's blood on the carpet?

But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subjected to the temptation of feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman.

It was also shameful: when a shameful thing is done to you, the shamefulness rubs off on you. You feel dirtied.

What confronts us, now the excitement's over, is our own failure.

You can't lead if no one will follow.

We're ankle deep in blood, and all because we ate the birds, we ate them a long time ago, when we still had the power to say no.

The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

Be a good girl, she said. I hope you'll be a good sister to Laura. I know you try to be. I nodded. I didn't know what to say. I felt I was the victim of an injustice: why was it always me who was supposed to be a good sister to Laura, instead of the other way around? Surely my mother loved Laura more than she loved me.

Then she lent me her red flannel petticoat until I should get one of my own, and showed me how to fold and pin the cloths, and said hat some called it Eve's curse but she thought that was stupid, and the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam, who as soon as there was any trouble, blamed it all on her.

For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 'And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived in the transgression.