They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word <i>undone</i>. These women could be undone; or not. They s… - Margaret Atwood

The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me. When the leaders were older than me I could believe in their wisdom, I could believe they had transcended rage and malice and the need to be loved. Now I know better. I look at the faces in newspapers, in magazines, and wonder: what greeds, what furies drive them on?

“Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain."

You want your decisions taken away from you so you won’t be responsible for your own actions?