Anzia Yezierska - Hungry Hearts (1920)

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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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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.

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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.

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Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut—a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.

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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!

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For the little while when we was lovers I breathed the air from the high places where love comes from, and I can't no more come down.

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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?

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I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing — righteous indignation.

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The cold indifference, the each-for-himself look in the eyes of the people about her were like stinging slaps in the face.

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Ain't I hurt enough without you having to hurt me yet with charity? You want to give me hush money to swallow down unrightness that burns my flesh? I want justice.

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Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.

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