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• The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.

  Karen Horney

  Responsibility, Emotional, Self

  Karen Horney (1967). “Feminine Psychology”

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• I've never gone anywhere where the men have come up to my infantile expectations. I always have gone through life constantly being surprised by the extreme, marvelous qualities of a small minority of men. But I can't see the rest of them. They seem awful rubbish.

  Rebecca West

  Men, Expectations, Quality

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• Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.

  Olive Schreiner

  Humanity, Gone, Slavery

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• FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Years, Mind, Use

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

  James A. Baldwin

  Fear, Grace, Growth

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James A. Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Maturity, Immature

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes.

  Philip Pullman

  Adults, Maps, Way

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• On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Hands, Suffering, Age

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• We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.

  Karen Armstrong

  Ideas, Levels, Santa

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• Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert irrevocable tenure there. The opening bars, the hammer-beat accelerando of Edith Piaf's Je ne regrette rien - the text is infantile, the tune stentorian, and the politics which enlisted the song unattractive - tempt every nerve in me, touch the bone with a cold burn and draw me into God knows what infidelities to reason, each time I hear the song, and hear it, uncalled for, recurrent inside me.

  George Steiner

  Dream, Song, Infidelity

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.210, Faber & Faber

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• In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though they were sensual pleasures. This is what Europe offered, or was said to offer.

  Saul Bellow

  Europe, America, Political

  Saul Bellow (2016). “It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future”, p.204, Odyssey Editions

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• What's most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it actually thinks it's saying something of significance.

  Kenneth Turan

  Thinking, Realization, Violence

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• For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.

  Frantz Fanon

  Reality, Helping, Beloved

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.44, Pluto Press

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• Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.

  Jim Harrison

  Fate, Justice, Hardship

  Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.18, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I know now for a fact that improv can't hold a candle to doing standup. It's not the same buzz, it just isn't. It feels infantile to me at times. When you see guys who do it really well, great. But improv needs a rewrite.

  Ron James

  Guy, Needs, Buzz

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• I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.

  Ezra Pound

  Mean, Years, America

  Ezra Pound (1950). “The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941”, p.346, New Directions Publishing

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• In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse-quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up.

  John Updike

  Mother, War, Pulse

  John Updike (1991). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden - as an unpatriotic act - that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood

  James A. Baldwin

  Black And White, Boys, Cowboy

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• ...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the biggest pile of red ones. So once the cards are dealt the game is determined, and from any position in it you can derive all others back to the deal and forward to win or draw. ...in relation to the solar system..., the laws are like the rules of an infantile card game.... But in relation to what happens on and inside a planet the laws are, rather, like the rules of chess; the play is seldom determined, though nobody breaks the rules.

  G. E. M. Anscombe

  Winning, Law, Games

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• I am a father. My son's name is Max and my daughter's name is Billie Grace. Twelve years ago Max was born with Down Syndrome. His journey has been complicated by infantile seizures, sleep apnea, dietary challenges and now, puberty!

  John C. McGinley

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.

  John Ralston Saul

  United States, Enthusiasm, Given

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, Looks, Disease

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• Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Law, Perception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.183

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• To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Mean, Responsibility, Past

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• A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the cockroach on the floor while our father is preparing a magnificent feast for us.

  Criss Jami

  Father, Curiosity, Cockroaches

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.9, Criss Jami

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