Anzia Yezierska

“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.”

“I felt I could turn the earth upside down with my littlest finger. I wanted to dance, to fly in the air and kiss the sun and stars with my singing heart. I, alone with myself, was enjoying myself for the first time as with grandest company.”

“A poor man is a living dead one.”

“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.”

“Hell, is trying to do what you can't do, trying to be what you're not”

“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.”

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