Some day some one will write a magazine serial or a movie around the life of Madame Bey, but I question its success. Because the public would consider it too far fetched, too imaginative. I mean things that have happened in the life of Madame Bey challenge credibility. They are not supposed to happen – except in the case of Madame Bey.
—United Press, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, December 10, 1937

Even by today's standards, what Madame Bey accomplished challenges credibility.