Kathryn Stockett Quotes

• 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 Stockett

  Women, Book, Two

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.438, Penguin

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• Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Writing, Bother, Ifs

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.82, Penguin

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• Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

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  Vida, Mañana, Creer

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• I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Book, Order, California

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.81, Penguin

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• ....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

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  Believe, Choices, I Realized

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.73, Penguin

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• Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

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  Ink, Paper, Vicious

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.374, Penguin

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• It seems like at some point you'd run out of awful.

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  Running, Awful, Seems

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• Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.

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  Book, Giving, Missing

  "The Help". Book by Kathryn Stockett, 2009.

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• And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.

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  Dream, Fun, Lying

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

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  Kindness, Smart, Love Yourself

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.212, Penguin

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

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  Kindness, Boundaries, No Boundaries

  Kathryn Stockett (2011). “The Help”, p.484, Penguin UK

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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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  Girl, Believe, Hands

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.73, Penguin

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• You're gon' have to say to your self, am I gon' believe what them fools say about me today?

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  Believe, Self, Today

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• There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the unequal world of segregation. For the dishonesty upon which a society is founded makes every emotion suspect, makes it impossible to know whether what flowed between two people was honest feeling or pity or pragmatism.(Howell Raines's Pulitzer Prize winning article "Grady's Gift")-Sockett admired this quote and used it in her summary.

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  Winning, Two, White

  Kathryn Stockett (2011). “The Help”, p.688, Penguin UK

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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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  Dark, Insanity, Feelings

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.363, Penguin

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• Cause everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do.

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  White, Black, Care

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.308, Penguin

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

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  Boys, World, Causes

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.12, Penguin

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• I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.

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  Libro, Hogar, Pensamiento

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• ...de repente, me besó. Justo en medio del restaurante del hotel Robert E. Lee, me besó tan despacio, con la boca abierta, que cada parte de mi cuerpo -mi piel, mi clavícula, el hueco de mis rodillas, todo dentro de mí- se llenó de luz.

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  Light, Blue, Filled Up

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.183, Penguin

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• Ya se ha puesto el vestido azul que planché esta mañana, el que tiene sesenta y cinco pliegues en la cintura, tan pequeño que tengo que entrecerrar los ojos a través de las gafas para plancharlo. No odio muchas cosas en la vida, pero ese vestido y yo no estamos en buenos términos.

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  Morning, Hate, Blue Dress

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.13, Penguin

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• The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of being rejected and put your manuscript—or painting, song, voice, dance moves, [insert passion here]—in the coffin that is your bedside drawer and close it for good. I guarantee you that it won’t take you anywhere. Or you could do what this writer did: Give in to your obsession instead.

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  Song, Moving, Passion

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• I'd cry, if only I had the time to do it.

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  Cry, Ifs

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.371, Penguin

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• And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

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  Lines, Towns, Sometimes

  "The Help". Book by Kathryn Stockett, February 10, 2009.

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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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  Challenges, Everyday, Pills

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.245, Penguin

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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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  Believe, Black And White, Long

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