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QUOTATION: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.
ATTRIBUTION:Anzia Yezierska (c. 1881–1970), Polish author. Fanny, in “The Fat of the Land,” Hungry Hearts and Other Stories (1920).

Talking of her struggle to escape from the ghetto.
 
 
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