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Fear and conventionality (1914)
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A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Elsie Clews Parsons
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Born:
November 27, 1875
Died:
December 19, 1941
(aged 66)
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