Mary Antin Quotes


The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.


Citations

Antin, Mary. The Promised Land. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912, p. 187.

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Mary Antin
Mary Antin
  • Born: June 13, 1881
  • Died: May 15, 1949
  • Nationality: Russian
  • Profession: Activist

Mary Antin was an American author and immigration rights activist. She is best known for her 1912 autobiography The Promised Land, an account of her emigration and subsequent Americanization.