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> [At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anzia-yezierska/at-last-i-came-to-college-i-rushed-for-it-with-the-outstretched-arms/)

[Anzia Yezierska](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anzia-yezierska/)

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## More by Anzia Yezierska

> [Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anzia-yezierska/science-has-salvaged-scrap-metal-and-even-found-vitamins-and-valuable/)

[Anzia Yezierska](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anzia-yezierska/)

> [The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anzia-yezierska/the-trouble-with-us-is-that-the-ghetto-of-the-middle-ages-and-the/)

[Anzia Yezierska](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anzia-yezierska/)

> [Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anzia-yezierska/poverty-was-an-ornament-on-a-learned-man-like-a-red-ribbon-on-a-white/)

[Anzia Yezierska](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anzia-yezierska/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anzia-yezierska/a-man-is-free-to-go-up-as-high-as-he-can-reach-up-to-but-i-with-all/)

[Anzia Yezierska](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anzia-yezierska/)

> [I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anzia-yezierska/i-m-one-of-the-millions-of-immigrant-children-children-of-loneliness/)

[Anzia Yezierska](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anzia-yezierska/this-fire-in-me-it-s-not-just-the-hunger-of-a-woman-for-a-man-it-s/)

[Anzia Yezierska](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anzia-yezierska/)

> [Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anzia-yezierska/like-all-people-who-have-nothing-i-lived-on-dreams/)

[Anzia Yezierska](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anzia-yezierska/woe-is-me-bitter-is-me-for-what-is-my-life-why-didn-t-the-ship-go/)

[Anzia Yezierska](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anzia-yezierska/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anzia-yezierska/give-a-beggar-a-dime-and-he-ll-bless-you-give-him-a-dollar-and-he-ll/)

[Anzia Yezierska](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anzia-yezierska/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anzia-yezierska/without-comprehension-the-immigrant-would-forever-remain-shut-a/)

[Anzia Yezierska](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anzia-yezierska/)

> [I've borne the shame of mother while you bought her off with a present and a treat here and there. God knows how hard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anzia-yezierska/i-ve-borne-the-shame-of-mother-while-you-bought-her-off-with-a/)

[Anzia Yezierska](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anzia-yezierska/)

> [The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anzia-yezierska/the-power-that-makes-grass-grow-fruit-ripen-and-guides-the-bird-in/)

[Anzia Yezierska](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anzia-yezierska/)

> [At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anzia-yezierska/at-last-i-came-to-college-i-rushed-for-it-with-the-outstretched-arms/)

[Anzia Yezierska](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anzia-yezierska/)

> [I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anzia-yezierska/i-was-so-obsessed-and-consumed-with-my-grievances-that-i-could-not/)

[Anzia Yezierska](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anzia-yezierska/)

> [As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anzia-yezierska/as-one-of-the-dumb-voiceless-ones-i-speak-one-of-the-millions-of/)

[Anzia Yezierska](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anzia-yezierska/)

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