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Kathryn Stockett Quote: “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 Quote: “I’ve become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town’s Boo Radley, just like in To Kill A Mockingbird.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “I’m sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “And you call yourself a Christian,? were Hilly’s words to me and I thought, God. When did I ever do that?”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “I put the iron down real slow, feel that bitter seed grow in my chest, the one planted after Treelore died. My face goes hot, my tongue twitchy. I don’t know what to say to her. All I know is, I ain’t saying it. And I know she ain’t saying what she want a say either and it’s a strange thing happening here cause nobody saying nothing and we still managing to have us a conversation.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we’ve come.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “But after Mr. Evers got shot a week ago, lot a colored folk is frustrated in this town. Especially the younger ones, who ain’t built up a callus yet.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “Her nose wrinkle up cause now she got to remember to say she Mae Mobley Three, when her whole life she can remember, she been telling people she Mae Mobley Two. 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 Quote: “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 Quote: “Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person. Is you one a them peoples?”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “I was surprise to see the world didn’t stop just cause my boy did.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “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 Quote: “Who knew heartbreak would be so goddamn hot.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “At one O’Clock, Miss Celia comes in the kitchen and says she’s ready for her first cooking lesson. She settles on a stool. She’s wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “It’s already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “No one tells us, girls who don’t go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “I intend to stay on her like hair on soap.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “Womens, they ain’t like men. A woman ain’t gone beat you with a stick. Miss Hilly wouldn’t pull no pistol on me. Miss Leefolt wouldn’t come burn my house down. No, white womens like to keep they hands clean. They got a shiny little set of tools they use, sharp as witches’ fingernails, tidy and laid out neat, like the picks on a dentist tray. They gone take they time with em.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “I think about how no one in the car would come out and say it. We all know about these laws, we live here, but we don’t talk about them. This is the first time I’ve ever seen them written down.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “She hug me around my neck, say, “You’re righter than Miss Taylor.” I tear up then. My cup is spilling over. Those is new words to me.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “Bosoms are for bedrooms and breastfeeding.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “I grew up in the 1970s, but I don’t think a whole lot had changed from the ’60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books – but not in the kitchens of white homes.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “Some readers tell me, ‘We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.’ You know, that’s interesting, but I wonder what your maid’s perspective was on that.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “Down in the national news section, there’s an article on a new pill, the ‘Valium’ they’re calling it, ‘to help women cope with everyday challenges.’ God, I could use about ten of those little pills right now.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “Sanitation Initiative,” Miss Hilly say. “As a disease-preventative measure.” I’m surprised by how.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “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 Quote: “She’s like a Philistine on a Sunday, the way she won’t take but so many steps a day. Except every day’s Sunday around here.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “Rule Number One for working for a white lady, Minny: it is nobody’s business. You keep your nose out of your White Lady’s problems, you don’t go crying to her with yours – you can’t pay the light bill? Your feet are too sore? Remember one thing: white people are not your friends. They don’t want to hear about it. And when Miss White Lady catches her man with the lady next door, you keep out of it, you hear me?”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “Only three things them ladies talk about: they kids, they clothes, and they friends. I hear the word Kennedy, I know they ain’t discussing no politic. They talking about what Miss Jackie done wore on the tee-vee.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “And I know there are plenty of other “colored” things I could do besides telling my stories or going to Shirley Boon’s meetings- the mass meetings in town, the marches in Birmingham, the voting rallies upstate. But truth is, I don’t care that much about voting. I don’t care about eating at a counter with white people. What I care about is, if in ten years, a white lady will call my girls dirty and accuse them of stealing the silver.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “I feel like I’m selling something nobody want to buy. Something big and stinky, like Kiki Brown and her lemon smell-good polish. But what really makes me and Kiki the same is, I’m proud a what I’m selling. I can’t help it. We telling stories that need to be told.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “If singing was a color, it would’ve been the color of that chocolate.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “Be the prettiest book I ever seen. The cover is pale blue, color a the sky. And a big white bird – a peace dove – spreads its wings from end to end.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “Maybe I ain’t too old to start over, I think and I laugh and cry at the same time at this. Cause just last night I thought I was finished with everything new.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “Cause everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “Truth. It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that’s been burning me up all my life.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “Im a Southerner – I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “Kindness don’t have no boundaries.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “I look deep into her rich brown eyes and she look into mine. Law, she got old-soul eyes, like she done lived a thousand years. And I swear I see, down inside, the woman she gone grow up to be. A flash from the futures. She is tall and straight. She is proud. She got a better haircut. And she is remembering the words I put in her head. Remembering as a full-grown woman. And then she says it, just like I need her to. “You is kind,” she say, “you is smart. You is important.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “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 Quote: “If chocolate was a sound, it would’ve been Constantine’s voice singing. If singing was a color, it would’ve been the color of that chocolate.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “We look at each other a second. ” I’m tired of the rules,” I say. Aibileen chuckles and looks out the window. I realise how thin this revelation must sound to her.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “Someone whose eyes simply said, without words, You are fine with me.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “President Kennedy’s assassination, less than two weeks ago, has struck the world dumb. It’s like no one wants to be the first to break the silence. Nothing seems important.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “Lord, I never seen blue hair on a black woman before or since. Leroy say you look like a cracker from outer space.”
Kathryn Stockett Quote: “I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid a month’s worth a light bill for. I guess that’s when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. Shame ain’t black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.”
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