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Quotes About Responsibility

You can't marry boys and expect them to be men - and you can't massage them into being men.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Promises made out of ignorance should not be kept.
~ Laura Schlessinger
If someone has a boy who gets to age 18 without something [a bone] being fractured, that kid has been overly controlled.
~ Laura Schlessinger
The worst thing is the world is a defensive my-kid-can't-do-anything-wrong parent.
~ Laura Schlessinger
There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The penalty for getting the woman you want is that you must keep her.
~ Lionel Strachey
Men are just as willing as women to marry up, and life is now giving them the opportunity to do so. So, women, own up to your accomplishments, buy him a drink, and tell him what you really do.
~ Liza Mundy
When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.
~ Madame de Stael
He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We have women entering lower-paying career fields. Women are still, culturally, the primary caregivers for children, even though we would love to have fathers and mothers share responsibility.
~ Martha McSally
Even though they (women) grow weary and wear themselves out with child-bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die, that is what they are there for.
~ Martin Luther
women and girls begin to bare themselves behind and in front, and there is nobody to punish and hold in check, and besides, God's word is mocked.
~ Martin Luther
In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal.
~ Mary Blakely
I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.
~ Mary Gaitskill
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
~ Mary McCarthy
I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.
~ Maya Angelou
I know that so many women don't have a choice. They could lose their job if they say, 'I need to leave because I don't have childcare.'
~ Maya Harris
Why do we take a dollar? Why do we give a dollar to countries that have no rights for women? We have to think about that.
~ Michael T. Flynn
A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Women are the guardians of morality.
~ Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne