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Anzia Yezierska

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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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“Beloved, Dearest One: How I long to shout to the world our happiness. I feel that you and I are the only two people alive in the world - the only people that know the secret meaning of existence. I have no diamond rings, no gifts of love that other lovers have for their beloved. My poetry is all I have to offer you. And so I dedicate my collected verses, 'Poems of Poverty,' to you, beloved. Morris.”

Love Poetry Poverty

Book:Bread Givers

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“A poor man is a living dead one.”

Book:Bread Givers

Source: Bread Givers

“At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.”

“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

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“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.”

Giving Poverty Dollars Fortune Charity Bottom Holes Curse Bags Bless Beggar Dimes Withholding

Book:Red ribbon on a white horse

Source: Red ribbon on a white horse

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

Men White Poverty Red Horse Lipstick Ornaments Ribbons Red Lips Red Lipstick White Horse Red Ribbon

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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