# Quote — Anzia Yezierska, Hungry Hearts

> Shenah Pessah paused in the midst of scrubbing the stairs of the tenement. "Ach!" she sighed. "How can his face still burn so in me when he is so long gone? How the deadness in me flames up with life at the thought of him!" (beginning of "Hunger")

- Author: [Anzia Yezierska](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anzia-yezierska.md)
- Book: [Hungry Hearts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anzia-yezierska/hungry-hearts.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/anzia-yezierska/hungry-hearts/shenah-pessah-paused

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> In an air-shaft so narrow that you could touch the next wall with your bare hands, Hanneh Breineh leaned out and knocked on her neighbor's window. (first lines)

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> 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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> 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.

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