Famous quotes containing the word wilder:
“It was not seen that womans 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.”
—Rose Wilder Lane (18861965)
“I somehow always have this idea that as soon as I can get through this work thats piled up ahead of me, Ill really write a beautiful thing. But I never do. I always have the idea that someday, somehow, Ill be living a beautiful life. And that, too ... [ellipsis in source]”
—Rose Wilder Lane (18861968)
“There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.”
—Rose Wilder Lane (18861965)