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Anzia Yezierska


Born
in Mały Płock, Vistula Land, Russian Empire
October 29, 1880

Died
November 20, 1970

Genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction


Anzia Yezierska was a Jewish-American novelist born in Mały Płock, Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire. She emigrated as a child with her parents to the United States and lived in the immigrant neighborhood of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

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“When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.”
― Anzia Yezierska
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“I saw that "success," "failure," "poverty", "riches," were price tags, money values of the market place which had mesmerized and sidetracked me for years.”
― Anzia Yezierska
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“For a little while when we were lovers I breathed the air from the high places where love comes from, and I can't no more come down.”
― Anzia Yezierska, Hungry Hearts
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