Anzia Yezierska - Life Quotes

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Jean turned the piano into a human voice, waking them out of sodden sleep. Just listening was living. Life filtered through tired bodies, bent backs. Heads lifted. Fear and worry fled from their eyes. For an instant, they breathed in a fullness of life denied them in life.

Anzia Yezierska

This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man — it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!

Anzia Yezierska

Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?

Anzia Yezierska