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

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.

...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.

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

Once you read something, you can't erase it from your brain.

I just can't sit still and meditate; that doesn't kind of work for me. I don't even know exactly what it means.

Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!

Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?

I do not mind at all that Newton is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction.

Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!

The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

I think there's something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think - you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.