Mother calls up the stairs to ask what in the world I'm typing up there all day and I holler down, 'Just… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“I've been dropped off in a place I do not belong anymore. Certainly not here with Mother and Daddy,...” — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers.… — 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,… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“I guess that's when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“I slip off my flats and walk down the front porch steps, while Mother calls out for me to put my shoes… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens. Mother… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I give in and light another cigarette even though last night the surgeon general came on the television set and shook his… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“Mother says she doesn't need the medication anymore, that the only cure for cancer is having a daughter who won't cut her… — 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
