American-south Quote by 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, I guessed…

— 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 come,' because…

— 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. I realise…

— Kathryn Stockett

“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

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

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. Even though…

— 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 remember, she…

— 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