Anzia Yezierska Professions : Novelist Born : 1880 Died : November 21, 1970 Browse All Authors Top 26 quotes by Anzia Yezierska 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. Anzia Yezierska poverty charity giving I've borne the shame of mother while you bought her off with a present and a treat here and there. God knows how hard I tried to civilize her so as not to have to blush with shame when I take her anywhere. I dressed her in the most stylish Paris models, but Delancey Street sticks out from every inch of her. Whenever she opens her mouth, I'm done for. You fellows had your chance to rise in the world because 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. Anzia Yezierska girl mother men The real thing creates its own poetry. Anzia Yezierska real-things real Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted. Anzia Yezierska oil age people Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. Anzia Yezierska horse white men 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. Anzia Yezierska live ghetto trouble children Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
