Rose Wilder Lane Quote

Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them for their appearance, but for the memories in them, for their good wearing qualities and the thrift they represented.


Old Home Town (1935)


Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them for their...

Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them for their...

Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them for their...

Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them for their...