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

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.

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.

God did not call the qualified to serve Him: instead He qualified the called.

A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.

Every right decision you create opens a wide gate to your destiny.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

I'm much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me. I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.

I have gone from “being” my experience to being infinite consciousness having the experience and observing the experience.

This happens to me every couple of years. I'll look at someone I respect and I'll realize that he's outworking me. It changes the way I behave for the next half decade.

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.

Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40.