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....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.
Kathryn Stockett
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Kathryn Stockett
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
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Baby Girl, I say. I need you remember everything I told you. Do you remember what I told you? She still crying steady, but the hiccups are gone. To wipe my bottom good when I'm done? No, baby, the other one. About who you are.
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This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.
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Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.
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Only three things them ladies talk about: they kids, they clothes, and they friends. I hear the word Kennedy, I know they ain’t discussing no politic. They talking about what Miss Jackie done wore on the tee-vee.
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....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.
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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 interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.
Kathryn Stockett
And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.
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I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns.
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Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises an ill word about her around me, unless she is their mother too.
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Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.
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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 was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.
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I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.
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Who knew heartbreak would be so goddamn hot.
Kathryn Stockett
The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach.
Kathryn Stockett
Mrs. Charlotte Phelan's Guide to Husband-Hunting, Rule Number One: a pretty, petite girl should accentuate with makeup and good posture. A tall plain one, with a trust fund.
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I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did.
Kathryn Stockett
Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?
Kathryn Stockett
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 no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it.
Kathryn Stockett
I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?
Kathryn Stockett
Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.
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