“I can imagine nothing more wonderful than always wanting to keep a man…It's this NOT wanting to keep them, and yet not quite being able to disentangle one's self, never quite having the ruthlessness to stike at the hands on the gunwale with an oar until they let go -- that's the horrible thing.”

—  Rose Wilder Lane

Letter to Dorothy Thompson (December 29, 1927).

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