Marjorie Joyner

Marjorie Joyner (née Stewart; October 24, 1896 – December 27, 1994) was an American businesswoman, hair care entrepreneur, philanthropist, educator, and activist. Joyner is noted for being the first African-American woman to create and patent a permanent hair-wave machine. In addition to her career in hair care, Joyner was highly visible in the African-American community in Chicago, once serving as head of the Chicago Defender Charity network, helping organize the Bud Billiken Day Parade and fundraiser for various schools. Quotes There is nothing a woman can't do. Men might think they do things all by themselves but a woman is always there guiding them or helping them." If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die. There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one. The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened All of the men on my staff can type. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could Men can do all things if they will If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men. "It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it. "Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making. The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed External link Category:Dead people Category:1896 births Category:1994 deaths Category:Women activists from the United States Category:Entrepreneurs Category:20th-century American businesswomen