“A course we different! Everybody know colored people and white people ain't the same. But we still just people.” — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“The first time I was ever called ugly, I was thirteen. It was a rich friend of my brother Carlton's over to… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“It's alive and well everywhere. Native Americans get a lot of crap in the West and south west. Muslims get treated like… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Rule Number One for working for a white lady, Minny: it is nobody’s business. You keep your nose out of your White… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“Constantine sat down next to me, at the kitchen table, I heard the cracking of her swollen joints. She pressed her thumb… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Miss Celia stares down into the pot like she's looking for her future. "Are you happy, Minny?" "Why you ask me funny… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Because ain’t that white people for you, wondering if they are happy enough. — 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
