Madam C. J. Walker (1867-1919) was “the first Black woman millionaire in America” and made her fortune thanks to her homemade line of hair care products for Black women. Born Sarah Breedlove to parents who had been enslaved, she was inspired to create her hair products after an experience with hair loss, which led to the creation of the “Walker system” of hair care.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

And the woman who could win the respect of a man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Marilyn Monroe Productions was the first female-owned production company in Hollywood. She paved the way for women in Hollywood, and every single woman owes something to her for that, whether they agree with her image or not.

Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.

[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.

Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone particularly men think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.

Because I am a woman I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail no one will say 'She doesn't have what it takes' They will say 'Women don't have what it takes.'

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends and my own best friends' mothers and from surrogates many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life even after their passing.

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn herself grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

It's always wonderful to get to know women with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth.

Women of the working class especially wage workers should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.

And most people have a woman in their heart most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.

I like to help women help themselves as that is in my opinion the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to and I don't think any one will deny us.

I did a women's movie and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

In my ballets woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.