A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.

- Elsie Clews Parsons

Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape. Civilization might be defined indeed as …

- Elsie Clews Parsons

Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptati…

- Elsie Clews Parsons