Kathryn Stockett Quotes

It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.

She dumb.” I sigh. “But she ain’t stupid.

Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises an ill word about her around me, unless she is their mother too.

When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.

Babies like fat. Like to bury they face up in you armpit and go to sleep. They like big fat legs too. That I know.

Frying chicken always makes me feel a little better about life.

I intend to stay on her like hair on soap.

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends

I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did.

It seems like at some point you'd run out of awful.

Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.

I'd cry, if only I had the time to do it.

....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

Cause everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do.

She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.

I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?

The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach.

And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.

I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.

I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns.

Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it.

Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.

Lord, I never seen blue hair on a black woman before or since. Leroy say you look like a cracker from outer space.

Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.

Why don't we just build you an house outside Hilly?

Stuart needs "space" and "time, " as if this were physics and not a human relationship.

As I wrote, I found that Aibileen had some things to say that really weren't in her character. She was older, soft-spoken, and she started showing some attitude.

Kindness don't have no boundaries.

And she is remembering the words I put in her head...."You is kind, " she say, "you is smart. You is important.

Hilly raises her voice about three octaves higher when she talks to coloured people. Elizabeth smiles like she's talking to a child, although certainly not her own. I am starting to notice things.

It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.

Cause that's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.

Truth.It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life.Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling.

He needs "space" and "time, " as if this were physics and not a human relationship.

We look at each other a second. " I'm tired of the rules, " I say. Aibileen chuckles and looks out the window. I realise how thin this revelation must sound to her.

I used to believe in 'em [lines]. I don't anymore. They in our heads. People like Miss Hilly is always trying to make us believe they there. But they ain't." - Aibileen

We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

But I do not know what to tell myself. Stuart needs "space" and "time, " as if this were physics and not a human relationship.