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Kathryn Stockett
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
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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 reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns.
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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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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'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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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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She dumb.” I sigh. “But she ain’t stupid.
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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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I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.
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Who knew heartbreak would be so goddamn hot.
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Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.
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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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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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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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Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.
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I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?
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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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...out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body-my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside of me filled up with light.
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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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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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