“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)

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American writer 1880–1970

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