Kathryn Stockett

Rich folk don't try so hard

— Kathryn Stockett

“Babies love fat.”

— Kathryn Stockett

“But the help always knows.”

— Kathryn Stockett

“We all on a party line to God...”

— Kathryn Stockett

I'm tired of the rules," I say.

— Kathryn Stockett

I have decided not to die.

— Kathryn Stockett

“What if I'm stuck. Here. Forever.”

— Kathryn Stockett

It seems like at some point you'd run out of awful.

— Kathryn Stockett

Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

— Kathryn Stockett

I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

— Kathryn Stockett

I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

— Kathryn Stockett

All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.

— Kathryn Stockett

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

— Kathryn Stockett

“It was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with”

— Kathryn Stockett

Cause everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do.

— Kathryn Stockett

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they…

— Kathryn Stockett

And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to…

— Kathryn Stockett

Here's to new beginnings," Stuart says and raises his bourbon. I nod, sort of wanting to tell him that all beginnings are…

— Kathryn Stockett

I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just…

— Kathryn Stockett

Your white uniform as a black domestic was your ticket anywhere in town.

— Kathryn Stockett

“She got a confused, disgusted look on her face, like she done salted her coffee instead a sugared it.”

— Kathryn Stockett

You're gon' have to say to your self, am I gon' believe what them fools say about me today?

— Kathryn Stockett

I think if you're president, color goes away completely: you're president and it doesn't matter if you're white, green or purple.

— Kathryn Stockett

“Možda sam i prestara da bih počela ispočetka, pomislim i na to se istovremeno nasmijem i zaplačem. Jer baš sam sinoć mislila…

— Kathryn Stockett

I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We…

— Kathryn Stockett

...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out…

— Kathryn Stockett

“Oh, it was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with...It was having someone look at you after your mother has nearly…

— Kathryn Stockett

“I like telling my stories. It feels like I’m doing something about it. When I leave, the concrete in my chest has…

— Kathryn Stockett

Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over…

— Kathryn Stockett

“I shake my head at my friend. “Not only is they lines, but you know good as I do where them lines…

— Kathryn Stockett

“Minny,” I say last Sunday, “why Bertrina ask me to pray for her?” Minny say, “Rumor is you got some kind a…

— Kathryn Stockett

“I worked for Miss Margaret thirty-eight years. She had her a baby girl with the colic and the only thing that stopped…

— Kathryn Stockett

“I used to be a good fighter." She looks out along the boxwoods, wipes off her sweat with her palm. "If you'd…

— Kathryn Stockett

“Today I'm on tell you bout a man from outer space." She just loves hearing about peoples from outer space. Her favorite…

— Kathryn Stockett

I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black…

— Kathryn Stockett

There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white…

— Kathryn Stockett

“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…

— Kathryn Stockett

“And I know there are plenty of other "colored" things I could do besides telling my stories or going to Shirley Boon's…

— Kathryn Stockett

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.…

— Kathryn Stockett

“I guess we all get a little snippy when we're not feeling good.”

— Kathryn Stockett