it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.

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.

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.

A secure attachment is the ability to bond

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

God never consults your past to make your future.

When the mind adjusts to simply staying here, then that mind is not called mind any more. It's just Self. It's only ever Self.

As an actor and a director, I always let my actors go... assuming they have good ideas.

The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.