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Anzia Yezierska was a Jewish-American novelist born in Mały Płock, 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. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. October 1880 – 21. November 1970
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Famous Anzia Yezierska Quotes

“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.”

Anzia Yezierska

How I Found America, pt. 3, from Hungry Hearts and Other Stories (1920)

“Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.”

Anzia Yezierska

Red Ribbon on a White Horse, ch. 9 (1950)

“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

The Fat of the Land, from Hungry Hearts and Other Stories (1920)

“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

The Fat of the Land, from Hungry Hearts and Other Stories (1920)

“Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse”

Anzia Yezierska

Of Poland, Red Ribbon on a White Horse, ch. 9 (1950)

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