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.

The ensuing court case was settled in an undisclosed manner but MacBride's heirs retained the rights. Lane's diaries reveal subsequent romantic involvements with several men in the years after her divorce but Rose Wilder Lane never remarried. The ensuing Great Depression further reduced the market for her writing and Rose Wilder Lane found herself isolated and depressed at Rocky Ridge Farm struggling to maintain her commitments to support herself her adopted children and her elderly parents who had retired from active farming with Lane's encouragement and financial support.

Rose Wilder Lane (December 5 1886 – October 30 1968) was an American journalist travel writer novelist and political theorist.