40 Quotes by Anzia Yezierska

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

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.

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.

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.

When I only begin to read, I forget I’m on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

This fire in me, it’s not just the hunger of a woman for a man – it’s the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!

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?

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.

Those who were high go down low, and those who’ve been low go up higher.