“If there were only one steel worker in the world he could be just as interesting to a novelist,” [Isabel Paterson] declared. “But the Communist theory requires that there shall be a mass of steel workers, or they don’t matter.”
–cited in David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito, Independent Review, “Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Zora Neale Hurston on War, Race, the State, and Liberty”