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1. "She dumb." I sigh. "But she ain't stupid." ~ Kathryn Stockett
2. "She's got so many azalea bushes, her yard's going to look like Gone With the Wind come spring. I don't like azaleas and I sure didn't like that movie, the way they made slavery look like a big happy tea party. If I'd played Mammy, I'd of told Scarlett to stick those green draperies up her white little pooper. Maker her own damn man-catching dress." ~ Kathryn Stockett
3. "Babies like fat. Like to bury they face up in you armpit and go to sleep. They like big fat legs too. That I know." ~ Kathryn Stockett
4. "With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends" ~ Kathryn Stockett
5. "Why don't we just build you an house outside Hilly?" ~ Kathryn Stockett
6. "I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did." ~ Kathryn Stockett
7. "I slip off my flats and walk down the front porch steps, while Mother calls out for me to put my shoes back on, threatening ringworm, mosquito, encephalitis. The inevitability of death by no shoes. Death by no husband." ~ Kathryn Stockett
8. "I don't regret it, but I don't feel quite as lucky anymore." ~ Kathryn Stockett
9. "We done something brave and good here....Maybe [we] don't want to be deprived a any a the things that go along with being brave and good. Even the bad." ~ Kathryn Stockett
10. "It was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with" ~ Kathryn Stockett
11. "We all on a party line to God..." ~ Kathryn Stockett
12. "Things ain't never gone change in this town , Aibileen. We living in hell. Our kids is trapped." ~ Kathryn Stockett
13. "To say I have frizzy hair is an understatement. It is kinky, more pubic than cranial, and whitish blond, breaking off easily, like hay." ~ Kathryn Stockett
14. "Rouva Charlotte Phelanin opas aviomiehenmetsästykseen, sääntö numero yksi: pienikokoinen, sievä tyttö korostakoon viehätysvoimaansa meikillä ja hyvällä ryhdillä. Pitkä ja ruma omalla rahastolla." ~ Kathryn Stockett
15. "You're gon' have to say to your self, am I gon' believe what them fools say about me today?" ~ Kathryn Stockett
16. "All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries." ~ Kathryn Stockett
17. "Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else." ~ Kathryn Stockett
18. "And you call yourself a Christian,' were Hilly's words to me and I thought, God. When did I ever do that?" ~ Kathryn Stockett
19. "When you little, you only get asked two questions, what's your name and how old you is, so you better get em right." ~ Kathryn Stockett
20. "Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again." ~ Kathryn Stockett
21. "I wash my hands, wonder how an awful day could turn even worse. It seems like at some point you'd just run out of awful." ~ Kathryn Stockett
22. "Mother calls up the stairs to ask what in the world I'm typing up there all day and I holler down, 'Just typing up some notes from the Bible study. Just writing down all the things I love about Jesus." ~ Kathryn Stockett
23. "This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes." ~ Kathryn Stockett
24. "And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed." ~ Kathryn Stockett
25. "Here's to new beginnings," Stuart says and raises his bourbon.I nod, sort of wanting to tell him that all beginnings are new." ~ Kathryn Stockett
26. "She already got the blue dress on I ironed this morning, the one with sixty-five pleats on the waist, so tiny I got to squint through my glasses to iron. I don't hate much in life, but me and that dress is not on good terms." ~ Kathryn Stockett
27. "....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen." ~ Kathryn Stockett
28. "For four days straights, I sit at my typewriter in my bedroom. Twenty of my typed pages, full of slashes and red-circled edits, become thirty-one in thick Strathmore white." ~ Kathryn Stockett
29. "Tonight, I'll strip off all this armor and let it be as it was before.." ~ Kathryn Stockett
30. "Miss Skeeter say maybe don't spec nothing at all, that most Southern peoples is "repressed." If they feel something, they might not say a word. Just hold they breath and wait for it to pass, like gas." ~ Kathryn Stockett
31. "It's so hot, Mister Dunn's rooster walks in my door and squats his red self right in front of my kitchen fan. I come in to find him looking at me like 'I ain't moving nowhere, lady" ~ Kathryn Stockett
32. "If I'd played Mammy, I'd of told Scarlett to stick those green draperies up her white little pooper. Make her own damn man-catching dress. -Minny" ~ Kathryn Stockett
33. "I guess we all get a little snippy when we're not feeling good." ~ Kathryn Stockett
34. "She blow em clean over. She suck the grits off the candle and start eating. After while, she smile up at me, say, "How old are you?""Aibileen's fifty-three."Her eyes get real wide. I might as well be a thousand." ~ Kathryn Stockett
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37. "Cause everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do." ~ Kathryn Stockett
38. "Cat got on the porch this morning, bout give me a cadillac arrest thinking it was Mister Johnny." ~ Kathryn Stockett
39. "it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft." ~ Kathryn Stockett
40. "they say it's like true love, good help. you only get one in a lifetime.....there is so much you don't know about a person. i wonder if i could've made her days a little bit easier, if I'd tried. if i'd treated her a little nicer....." ~ Kathryn Stockett
41. "Your white uniform as a black domestic was your ticket anywhere in town." ~ Kathryn Stockett
42. "Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children." ~ Kathryn Stockett
43. "Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up." ~ Kathryn Stockett
44. "I'm really incredibly stubborn - you can ask my ex-husband. I think when you tell me 'no', if it's something I really want, I'm just going to push harder." ~ Kathryn Stockett
45. "What a dichotomy. What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate." ~ Kathryn Stockett
46. "I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side a town. I want to stop that moment from coming - and it come in ever white child's life - when they start to think that colored folks ain't as good as whites. ... I pray that wasn't her moment, Pray I still got time." ~ Kathryn Stockett
47. "I'd cry, if only I had the time to do it." ~ Kathryn Stockett
48. "Frying chicken always makes me feel a little better about life." ~ Kathryn Stockett
49. "It seems like at some point you'd run out of awful." ~ Kathryn Stockett
50. "Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises an ill word about her around me, unless she is their mother too." ~ Kathryn Stockett
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking."[War With Honour, 1940]"
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