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.
Kathryn StockettTags: inspirational equality women race
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 StockettI'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.
Kathryn StockettTags: to-kill-a-mockingbird
....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.
Kathryn StockettMiss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the Think buttons.
Kathryn StockettTags: psychology sociology
She's like a Philistine on a Sunday, the way she won't take but so many steps a day. Except every day's Sunday around here.
Kathryn StockettYou is kind. You is smart. You is important.
Kathryn StockettTags: inspirational
Constantine sat down next to me, at the kitchen table, I heard the cracking of her swollen joints. She pressed her thumb hard in the palm of my hand, something we both knew meant 'Listen to me.' "Every morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision." Constantine was so close, I could see the blackness of her gums. "You gone have to ask yourself, am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?" She kept her thumb pressed hard in my hand. I nodded that I understood. I was just smart enough to realize she meant white people. And even though I still felt miserable, and knew that I was, most likely, ugly, it was the first time she ever talked to me like I was something besides my mother's white child. All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.
Kathryn StockettI always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.
Kathryn StockettNo one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.
Kathryn StockettTags: memory
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