Anzia Yezierska (October 29, 1880 – November 20, 1970) was a Jewish-American novelist born in Maly Plock, Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire. She emigrated as a child with her parents to the United States and lived in the immigrant neighborhood of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
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A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can’t get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
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Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
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The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
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