"...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal……" — Kathryn Stockett
"...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine."
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107 Quotes by Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett has 107 quotes on this site.
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Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's…
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As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of…
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I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it…
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Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in…
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I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American…
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I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns.
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I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South,
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Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates…
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Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family.…
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Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly…
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....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.
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I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo…
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More Defect Quotes
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one of 148 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it…
— Teresa of Avila
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
— Max Beerbohm
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There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are…
— Chaz Bono
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I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.
— Roberto Cavalli
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As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to…
— Thomas Aquinas
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The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some…
— John Jay Chapman
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In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to…
— John Desmond Bernal
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Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.
— Rumi
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In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English…
— John Desmond Bernal
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure;…
— Mark Twain
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