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That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.
Kathryn Stockett
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Kathryn Stockett
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
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Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.
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I hear Raleigh's new accounting business isn't doing well. Maybe up in New York or somewhere it's a good thing, but in Jackson, Mississippi, people just don't care to do business with a rude, condescending asshole.
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I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns.
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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 Radley, just like in To Kill A Mockingbird.
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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?
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Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.
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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 intend to stay on her like hair on soap.
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....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.
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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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Her nose wrinkle up cause now she got to remember to say she Mae Mobley Three, when her whole life she can remember, she been telling people she Mae Mobley Two. When you little, you only get asked two questions, what's your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.
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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 the '70s and '80s rolled up.
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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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I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.
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And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.
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That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls of my house….Took three months before I even looked out the window, see the world still there. I was surprised to see the world didn’t stop.
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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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Who knew heartbreak would be so goddamn hot.
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The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach.
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Why don't we just build you an house outside Hilly?
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