Kathryn Stockett

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

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've…

— Kathryn Stockett

“Tonight, I'll strip off all this armor and let it be as it was before..”

— Kathryn Stockett

“We look at each other a second. " I'm tired of the rules," I say. Aibileen chuckles and looks out the window.…

— Kathryn Stockett

“She blow em clean over. She suck the grits off the candle and start eating. After while, she smile up at me,…

— Kathryn Stockett

Babies like fat. Like to bury they face up in you armpit and go to sleep. They like big fat legs too.…

— Kathryn Stockett

They say it's like true love, good help. You only get one in a lifetime.

— Kathryn Stockett

That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies.…

— Kathryn Stockett

“Kindness don't have no boundaries.”

— Kathryn Stockett

Her nose wrinkle up cause now she got to remember to say she Mae Mobley Three, when her whole life she can…

— Kathryn Stockett

“And then I realize what I’ve known all night. He is looking at me but he is thinking about... her.”

— Kathryn Stockett

“He needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.”

— Kathryn Stockett

“Find I can get my point across a lot better writing them down”

— Kathryn Stockett

“That’s her favorite story cause when I tell it, she get two presents. I take the brown wrapping from my Piggly Wiggly…

— Kathryn Stockett

Stuart stands and says, 'Come here,' and he's on my side of the room in one stride and he claps my hands…

— Kathryn Stockett

“Some things I just got to keep for myself.”

— Kathryn Stockett

“Cause that's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.”

— Kathryn Stockett

“I’ve never been happier in my whole life.” I leave it at that. Underneath all that happy, she sure doesn’t look happy.”

— 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

“Do you ever wish you could… change things?”

— Kathryn Stockett

“I've been dropped off in a place I do not belong anymore. Certainly not here with Mother and Daddy,...”

— Kathryn Stockett

The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the…

— Kathryn Stockett

“Bosoms,” she announces, with a hand to her own, “are for bedrooms and breastfeeding. Not for occasions with dignity.” “Well, what do…

— Kathryn Stockett

“Hilly raises her voice about three octaves higher when she talks to coloured people. Elizabeth smiles like she's talking to a child,…

— Kathryn Stockett

“He kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body- my skin, my collarbones, the hollow…

— Kathryn Stockett