Anzia Yezierska

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.

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

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

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.