Quotes by Kathryn Stockett

About Kathryn Stockett:

Kathryn Stockett is an American novelist. She is known for her 2009 debut novel, The Help, which is about African-American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the 1960s.
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As I wrote, I found that Aibileen had some things to say that really weren't in her character. She was older, soft-spoken, and she started showing some attitude.

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It weren’t too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn’t feel so, accepting, anymore.

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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.

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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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I shake my head at my friend. “Not only is they lines, but you know good as I do where them lines be drawn.” Aibileen shakes her head. “I used to believe in em. I don’t anymore. They in our heads. People like Miss Hilly is always trying to ma...

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it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.

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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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I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

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He needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.

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Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.

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...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?

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We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

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You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

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All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.

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Kindness don't have no boundaries.

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I haven’t had the chance to look at too many men’s faces up close. And I noticed how his skin was thicker than mine, and a gorgeous shade of toast. The stiff blond hairs on his cheeks and chin seemed to be growing before my eyes. He smelled like ...

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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...

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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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Cause that's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.

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Miss 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.

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Author Bio

  • NameKathryn Stockett
  • DescriptionUS female writer
  • Born1969
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters
  • WorksThe Help