"Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom."

“New Light on the 'Sweatshop Cinderella'”

“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.”

“undergraduate paper on Yezierska's The Fat of the Land”

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

“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.”

“Anzia Yezierska and the Popular Periodical Debate Over the Jews”