Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“The fact is that nothing but human energy working productively can produce any of the necessities of human life, any human living… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“Living is fighting for life, and when anyone does not know this fact, someone else is doing his fighting for him.” — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
I somehow always have this idea that as soon as I can get through this work that's piled up ahead of me,… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“No one who sees the plain fact that all moral and spiritual values of human life are in the individual, can possibly… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share
“The only way to make me stand in line for half an hour to buy a spool of thread, or to make me spend… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share
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… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share
Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share
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… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share
Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share
Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share
The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share
Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share
Houses are the abiding joys; they are the most emotion-stirring of all things. An automobile is regarded with fond affection, a typewriter becomes the… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share
“To know the everlasting majority attitude toward new uses of productive energy, remember that your great-grandfather did not believe that railroads were possible. At… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share
“Certainly they would have planted more grapes, produced more wine, lowered the price of wine. They would have needed more casks, more boats, more… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share
“Ask why you can’t lift an innocent finger without permission, and your lack of the simplest reasoning power baffles them. One must always have… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share
“Being absolute, and maintained by police force, a Government monopoly need not please its customers.” — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share
