It weren’t too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn’t feel so, accepting, anymore.

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?

I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.

That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.

it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.

Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the Think buttons.

No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.

The name one gives is inessential.What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet.

This revolution will be noted. It will be successful and above all, it will be in words.

Indecision and fear can cripple any chances of succeeding and lead to maelstroms of regret that fuel our most fantastic nightmares.

It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.

The city is not the problem; the city is the solution.

Honey, a man can't keep his gun in a cookie jar. It just isn't done.

Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace.

An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.

A lot of African wildlife is very big. If you're protecting the big stuff, you're usually protecting the small stuff, too.

I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.