Anzia Yezierska Quotes

• 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.
• Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut-a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.
• Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse
• Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for witholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.
• 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
• Study guide at Georgetown
• Anzia Yezierska and the Popular Periodical Debate Over the Jews
• undergraduate paper on (amongst others)Yezierska's The Fat of the Land
• New Light on the 'Sweatshop Cinderella'

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