Quotes About Responsibility

I'm just tired and I can't sleep yet. A woman's work is never done, isn't that what the fools say?

Mother and Father apologize. They sing a show tune: 'What are we to do? What are we to do? She's so blue, we're just two. What, oh what, are we supposed to do?' In my headworld they jump on Principal Principal's desk and perform a tap-dance routine. A spotlight flashes on them. A chorus line joins in, and the guidance counselor dances around a spangled cane. I giggle. Zap. Back in their world.

When Heather sees what I have done, she bursts into tears again, sobbing that it isn't my fault. My stomach is killing me. Her room isn't big enough for this much emotion. I leave without saying goodbye.

God crackles over the intercom and tells Mr. Freeman he's late for a faculty meeting.

Life was a battle, and Mother a tired and bitter captain. The captain I had to obey.

Boss has this weird idea that I should actually work while he's paying me.

I have got a daughter, whose life is already separate from mine, whose will already follows its own directions, and who has quickly corrected my woolly preconceptions of her by being something remorselessly different. She is the child of herself and will be what she is. I am merely the keeper of her temporary helplessness.

Oh, boy. Now you see what you've done, Monica Lewinsky, you stupid, stupid tart, I thought. Because of you, I have to explain to my Nana, while she's in a hospital bed with an enlarged gallbladder, what oral sex is. Do you see the damage you've caused? Do you see where your sinful path has led?

Expert Tip: "No matter how old and achy I am, I can still haul ass outta bed when the dog starts making vomit noises."—Connie Sherretts, MAW

I realized that you don't try on a pair of pants, fart in them, and then put them back on the shelf, and the same rough politeness applied here, too. Plain and simple, I bled on it, I bought it.

People act poorly because other people have let them act poorly, and they have been able to get away with it for a lifetime. There is no sense of consequence. So I called a lawyer who looked up the

There are two things people in their twenties do better than anyone else: get drunk and fall down and experience unplanned pregnancies. That, Greta, is your specialty. That is your area of expertise, dear girl, not calling other women out for failing to be tablecloth woke.

The dead have a claim on us even heavier than that of the living, for they cannot hear our explanations, and we cannot ask their forgiveness.

Cain said he wasn't Abel's keeper. Are those our only choices, keeper or killer?

But whenever there's the right kind of nut making headlines, a Slasher or an Icepick Prowler, a certain number of people get pistol permits and a certain number of others buy illegal guns. Then some of them get drunk and shoot their wives. None of them ever seems to wind up nailing the Slasher. I

And this almost tautological business of having done one's best can't be reserved exclusively for parents.

I have done so many things in my life, she said to the mirror. Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

The most tender, the most tragic of illusions is perhaps to believe that our actions can add or subtract from the total quantity of good and evil in the world.

For all drama creates bondage, and the actor is only significant to the degree that he is bound.

La culpa se apresura siempre hacia su complemento, el castigo, y sólo allí encuentra satisfacción.

Unlike cats dogs never scratch you when you wash them. They just become very sad and try to figure out what they did wrong.

There's nothing in the world so sad as talking to a man who never knew his life was his for making.

We're in a world that is run by accountants and I think that it's sad in many ways.

It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that are producing virtually none of the problem.