Meandering . . .

Today is the birthday of Rose Wilder Lane (December 5, 1886 – October 30, 1968), journalist, travel writer, novelist, and political theorist. She is oft referred to as one of the founding mothers (with Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson) of the American libertarian movement.

"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."
- Rose Wilder Lane

"Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we—because we don’t question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted."
- Rose Wilder Lane

"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."
- Rose Wilder Lane

"Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it."
- Rose Wilder Lane

"Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open."
- Rose Wilder Lane

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