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Anzia Yezierska

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Novelist

Anzia Yezierska was an American Jewish novelist known for her works that focused on the lives of immigrants in the United States. Her writings deeply portrayed the struggles and challenges faced by immigrants in American society, exploring themes of personal identity and culture.

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Famous Anzia Yezierska Quotes

“Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.”

Book:All I Could Never Be

Source: All I Could Never Be

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

People Age Found Refuse Valuable Oil Old Age Metals Old People Scrap Vitamins Scrap Metal

Book:Hungry hearts and other stories

Source: Hungry hearts and other stories

“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!”

People Men Light Age Passion Fire Higher Hunger

Book:Hungry Hearts: Stories of the Jewish-American Immigrant Experience

Source: Hungry Hearts: Stories of the Jewish-American Immigrant Experience

“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.”

People Born Poor Poverty Rich Hated Touched Poor People Rich And Poor

Book:Red ribbon on a white horse

Source: Red ribbon on a white horse

About the Author

Born: 1880
Died: November 21, 1970
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 29

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Red ribbon on a white horseRelated source material

Hungry Hearts: Stories of the Jewish-American Immigrant ExperienceRelated source material

The open cage: an Anzia Yezierska collectionRelated source material

Bread GiversRelated source material

Children of LonelinessRelated source material

All I Could Never BeRelated source material

Bread Givers: A Novel : a Struggle Between a Father of the Old World and a Daughter of the NewRelated source material

Hungry hearts and other storiesRelated source material

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