I sit in my little office and I feel like I've got all my readers staring at me. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“...I want to read what you're thinking. I'm pretty sure it's not about housekeeping.” — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“But Lou Anne, she understood the point of the book before she even read it. The one who was missing the point… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“I head down the steps to see if my mail-order copy of Catcher in the Rye is in the box. I always… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“There is so much you don’t know about a person. I wonder if I could’ve made her days a little bit easier,… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Oh, it was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with. If I'd had a sister or a brother closer in age, I guessed… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“Tonight, I'll strip off all this armor and let it be as it was before..” — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“We look at each other a second. " I'm tired of the rules," I say. Aibileen chuckles and looks out the window. I realise… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“She blow em clean over. She suck the grits off the candle and start eating. After while, she smile up at me, say, "How… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Babies like fat. Like to bury they face up in you armpit and go to sleep. They like big fat legs too. That I… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
They say it's like true love, good help. You only get one in a lifetime. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Her nose wrinkle up cause now she got to remember to say she Mae Mobley Three, when her whole life she can remember, she… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“And then I realize what I’ve known all night. He is looking at me but he is thinking about... her.” — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“He needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.” — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
