Anzia Yezierska — Polish Novelist born on December 30, 1880, died on December 30, 1970

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... (wikipedia)

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.
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.