63 Quotes by Rose Wilder Lane

The first twenty years of my life were wasted...I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.

The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

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.

I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.

I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. I want to keep going but do not see quite how, and there is no alternative - rather than justify my mother's 25-year dread of my "coming back on her, sick", I must kill myself. If she has to pay funeral costs, at least she will cut them to the bone and I will not be here to endure her martyrdom and prolong it by living.

All men are brothers and each man is free.

Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog.

A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt.