| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 66605 |
| QUOTATION: | A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, cant get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Anzia Yezierska (c. 18811970), 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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