Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
About Anzia Yezierska
Anzia Yezierskawas 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.
More quotes from Anzia Yezierska
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.
Anzia Yezierska
American writer
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.
Anzia Yezierska
American writer
Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
Anzia Yezierska
American writer