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"Give a beggar a dime and hell bless you. Give him a dollar and hell curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom."
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Anzia Yezierska was an American novelist. She was born in Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire. She emigrated as a child with her parents to the United States and lived in Manhattan's Lower East Side ghetto. Her depictions of turn-of-the-century Jewish-American life—Hungry Hearts, Salome of the Tenements, and Bread Givers—won her acclaim in the 1920s, and she briefly worked as a scree
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"A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, cant get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother."
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"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."
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