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“Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare them for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood.”

Ifs Men Would Be Parent Race Watches Power Fate Childhood Minutes Objects Authority Absolutes Contrary Oppression Secure Perpetual Immense Manhood Gratification

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.”

Ifs Way Ideas Different Ends Dream Turns Destiny Our Lives Fate Plans Childhood Expected Height Providence Routes Our Dreams Riddle

Book:Astonishing the Gods

Source: Astonishing the Gods

“After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These middle-aged women seemed very tired to me, as if hope had been wrung out of them and replaced with a deathly, walking sort of sleep.”

Ifs Sleep Fate Childhood Middle Walking Adults Tired Hunger Unexpected Replaced Middle Aged

Book:A Gate at the Stairs

Source: A Gate at the Stairs

“Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We know she’s a girl. We can never emphasize this enough, because this is the fate of colored girls globally right now: the denial of their girlhood, the denial of their childhood, and the constant state of risk and danger they are living in.”

Thinking Knows Want Years States Enough Girl Fate Risk Childhood Danger Right Now Constant Denial Sexism Mexican Girlhood Colored Girls

Author:Bell Hooks

“Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.”

Believe Destiny Fate Childhood Condensation

Book:Duino Elegies/Duineser Elegien: A Dual-Language Book

Source: Duino Elegies/Duineser Elegien: A Dual-Language Book

“Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by reason, but his important decisions have already been made: what kind of person he will marry, how many children he will have, what kind of bed he will die in... It is incredible to think, at first, that man's fate, all his nobility and all his degradation, is decided by a child no more than six years old, and usually three... (but) it is very easy to believe by looking at what is happening in the world today, and what happened yesterday, and seeing what will happen tomorrow.”