All Kathryn Stockett Quotes
- Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what… Always Treated
- As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid… Child
- I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law… Book
- Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time… 80s
- I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar… African
- I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns. Chilluns
- I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South, Especially
- Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much… Book
- Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But… Asked
- Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the… Brain
- ....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen. Civil
- I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just like in To… Become One
- I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good. Always Order
- You is kind. You is smart. You is important. Important
- I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it. Always Thought
- No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens. Actually Happens
- 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 that's… Age
- I listened wide-eyed, stupid. Glowing by her voice in the dim light. If chocolate was a sound, it would've been Constantine's voice singing. If singing… Been
- Truth. It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life. Truth, I say… All
- I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid… All
- ...out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an… Backs
- All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries. All
- All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized… All
- ...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day? Day
- Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person. Hurtful