Anzia Yezierska (October 29, 1880 – November 20, 1970) was a Jewish-American novelist. She was born in Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire, the youngest of nine children. She emigrated as a child with her parents to the United States and lived in Manhattan's Lower East Side...
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.