I've borne the shame of mother while you bought her off with a present and a treat here and there. God knows how hard I tried to civilize her so as not to have to blush with shame when I take her anywhere. I dressed her in the most stylish Paris models, but Delancey Street sticks out from every inch of her. Whenever she opens her mouth, I'm done for. You fellows had your chance to rise in the world because 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.
I tasted the bread and wine of equality. - Anzia Yezierska
I tasted the bread and wine of equality.
- Anzia Yezierska
If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being. - Anzia Yezierska
If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being.
Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher. - Anzia Yezierska
Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.
Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched b… - Anzia Yezierska
Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched b…
As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of underst… - Anzia Yezierska
As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of underst…
The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all. - Anzia Yezierska
The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.
The world is a wheel always turning. - Anzia Yezierska
The world is a wheel always turning.
I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in. - Anzia Yezierska
I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. - Anzia Yezierska
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.
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