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.
self effort risk
The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.
responsibility hard-work self
That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.
self two groups
no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.
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.
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.
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.
writing effort quality
Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.
circles break-out movement
An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief in Authority.