Madam C. J. Walker worked as a washerwoman for twenty years. She then started her own business of developing and selling hair-care products for black women.
'Oh, sir! 'said Toad. 'I'm a poor unhappy washerwoman, and I've lost all my money, and I must get home tonight. ''Come on, then, 'said the engine-driver kindly.
Babbitty the washerwoman was watching the King and the charlatan from the window of her tiny cottage, and was laughing so hard she soon sank out of sight, too weak to stand.
“You will erect a statue of Babbitty upon me, in memory of your poor washerwoman, and to remind you for ever of your own foolishness! ” said the stump.
The tale of Babbitty Rabbitty does, however, give us one of the earliest literary mentions of an Animagus, for Babbitty the washerwoman is possessed of the rare magical ability to transform into an animal at will.
Little Walder, thought Theon. The big one. He glanced at Rowan. There are six of them, he remembered. Any of them could have done this. But the washerwoman felt his eyes. " This was no work of ours, " she said.
Tyrion was beginning to suspect that a certain freckled washerwoman knew more of the Common Speech than she pretended. " My niece Myrcella is in Dorne, as it happens. And I have half a mind to make her a queen" .