Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.

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.