63 Quotes by Rose Wilder Lane

One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I simply do not know what to tell my own boys, leaving school and confronting this new world whose ideal is Security and whose practice is dependence upon government instead of upon one's self.... All the old character-values seem simply insane from a practical point of view; the self-reliant, the independent, the courageous man is penalized from every direction.

I ask myself, ‘why am I so lazy?’ and am too lazy to reply.

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.

What I can’t understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.

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.

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.

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.

Constant repetition dulls receptivity...

Living is fighting for life, and when anyone does not know this fact, someone else is doing his fighting for him.