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
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.
brother men
All men are brothers and each man is free.
men facts doe
No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
war men essence
Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the desire for death, and the opposing hunger for movement, change, instability and risk, which are life. Men came from the east and built these American towns because they wished to go no farther, and the towns they built were shaped by the urge to go onward.
gun men necessary-use
Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use.
country men animal
Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.
fighting men sea
Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.
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.