Johnny Foote: Listen, Celia finally told me about the babies. All of them. But I also know that the minute you started working here, she started getting better. You saved her life. Minny Jackson: You mean, you knew I'd been working here this whole ti...
Minny Jackson: [to Skeeter] You ain't got nothing left here but enemies in the Junior League. You done burned every bridge there is. And you ain't never gonna get another man in this town, everybody know that. So don't walk your white butt to New Yor...
Aibileen Clark: I ain't never had no white person in my house before.
Aibileen Clark: Mrs. Leefolt should not be having babies. Put that in the book.
Mr. Blackly: I guarantee you, one day they're going to figure out cigarettes will kill you.
Stuart Whitworth: I've never met a woman that says exactly what she's thinking. Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: Well, I got plenty to say.
Charlotte Phelan: Your eggs are dying. Would it kill you to go on a date?
Aibileen Clark: [to Hilly] All you do is scare and lie to try and get what you want.
Minny Jackson: Fried chicken just tend to make you feel better about life.
Aibileen Clark: Miss Leefolt got so much hairspray on her head, she gonna blow us allup if she light a cigarette.
Minny Jackson: [Johnny's escorted Minny to the house where Celia has an elegant meal on the table] What's this? Celia Foote: [proudly] I cooked it all by myself. Johnny Foote: Yes she did. She was up all night. Celia Foote: I wanted to do something s...
Stuart Whitworth: Isn't that what all you girls from Ole Miss major in - professional husband hunting?
Charlotte Phelan: Get your raggedy ass off my porch.
Elizabeth Leefolt: [after Mae Mobley has used a toilet dropped on Hilly's lawn, Elizabeth pulls her off and spanks her; crying sounds are heard offscreen] You will get a disease from those toilets!
Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant? Or were you just born stupid?
Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: Oysters are a vehicle for crackers and ketchup.
Mr. Blackly: Shut that goddamn door!
