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.

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.

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.

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

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq.

A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent.

If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.

Soup is the song of the hearth... and the home.

We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.

Don't be a salad. Be the best god damn broccoli you can ever be.

CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.

Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response

We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.