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It can be really powerful to write something when youre sad.

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Kathryn Stockett
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
Novelist
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Jackson
Mississippi
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Something
Really
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And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.
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I used to believe in em (lines). I don't anymore. They in our heads. Lines between black and white ain't there neither. Some folks just made those up, long time ago. And that go for the white trash and the so-ciety ladies too.
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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 us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.
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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.
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Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.
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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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No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.
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As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother.
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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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This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.
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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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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.
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Why don't we just build you an house outside 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 was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.
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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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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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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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Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.
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