40 Quotes by Anzia Yezierska

The world is a wheel always turning.

Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.

I tasted the bread and wine of equality.

I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.

Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?

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 by it.

Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.

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.

If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being.