"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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Source : Anzia Yezierska (2014). “Hungry Hearts: Stories of the Jewish-American Immigrant Experience”, p.168, Courier Corporation

Anzia Yezierska

#Girl Quotes #Mother Quotes #Men Quotes

“I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.”
“Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.”
“My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.”
“The gospel of Jesus Christ is not limited to a system of beliefs; it is a plan of action.”
“The way I work with music is that I take on the story.”

Source : Source: chicago.gopride.com
“I don't understand why America embraces Lady GaGa and Katy Perry and all of the "pop stuff" as much as they do. The Jonas Brothers, Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber are also included, and I don't really get any of that. Maybe that means that I am old. That stuff seems like it isn't that "authentic." Katy has a cool writing style though, and her lyrics can be poignant and mean stuff from time to time. I really appreciate that about her.”
“Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rung the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way... well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't!”

Source : Evening weather broadcast, BBC, October 15, 1987.
“Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness”

Source : Richard Wright (2010). “American Hunger”, p.15, Harper Collins

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