Rose Wilder Lane
Rose Wilder Lane
Rose Wilder Lanewas an American journalist, travel writer, novelist, political theorist, and daughter of American writer Laura Ingalls Wilder. Along with Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson, Lane is noted as one of the founders of the American libertarian movement...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth5 December 1886
CountryUnited States of America
capture defeated endless fiction life
Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.
best damn dealing escapes life series
Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
home challenges resistance
It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.
sunday sunshine air
Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater proprietyand stateliness. Greetings were more formal, more subdued, voices more meticulously polite. Everything was so smooth, bland, polished. And genuinely so, because this was Sunday. In church the rustling and the stillness were alike pervaded with the knowledge that all was for the best. Propriety ruled the universe. God was in His Heaven, and we were in our Sunday clothes.
way poor damn
Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
repetition constant receptivity
Constant repetition dulls receptivity ..
curiosity mind hunger
Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.
letting-go men self
I can imagine nothing more wonderful than always wanting to keep a man...It's this NOT wanting to keep them, and yet not quite being able to disentangle one's self, never quite having the ruthlessness to stike at the hands on the gunwale with an oar until they let go -- that's the horrible thing.
real tree essentials
I so much like real things - the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like - what shall I say? - the way trees grow, from some inner essential principle of them, just expressing itself.
beautiful writing ideas
I somehow always have this idea that as soon as I can get through this work that's piled up ahead of me, I'll really write a beautiful thing. But I never do. I always have the idea that someday, somehow, I'll be living a beautiful life.
lasts
The longest lives are short; our work lasts longer.
years firsts twenties
The first twenty years of my life were wasted...I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.
real protection property
The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.
thinking long people
As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.