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Kathryn Stockett
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
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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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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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This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.
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I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.
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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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At one O'Clock, Miss Celia comes in the kitchen and says she's ready for her first cooking lesson. She settles on a stool. She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.
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I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?
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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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I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.
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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.
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Here's to new beginnings, Stuart says and raises his bourbon. I nod, sort of wanting to tell him that all beginnings are new.
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Mother calls up the stairs to ask what in the world I'm typing up there all day and I holler down, 'Just typing up some notes from the Bible study. Just writing down all the things I love about Jesus.
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She dumb.” I sigh. “But she ain’t stupid.
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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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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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Down in the national news section, there's an article on a new pill, the 'Valium' they're calling it, 'to help women cope with everyday challenges.' God, I could use about ten of those little pills right now.
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Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.
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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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....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.
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I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didnt have any phone service and we didnt have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed.
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