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

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#century #children #ghetto #live #middle

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

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#because #equal #free #get #girl

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. ↗

— Anzia Yezierska

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#learned #learned man #like #man #ornament