Kathryn Stockett
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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
lines towns sometimes
And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
paper ink vicious
Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious
interesting perspective maids
Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.
boys causes world
I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.
frustrated towns week
But after Mr. Evers got shot a week ago, lot a colored folk is frustrated in this town. Especially the younger ones, who ain't built up a callus yet.
white waiting personality
I wait on white ladies who walk right out the bedroom wearing nothing but they personality...
simple things-in-life pockets
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.
winning two white
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...
makeup sweaters missing
At one O'Clock, Miss Celia comes in the kitchen and says she's ready for her first cooking lesson. She settles on a stool. She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.
grit eating vehicle
That's all a grit is, a vehicle. For whatever it is you rather be eating.
prayer way electricity
That's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.
makeup sweaters scare
She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.
growing-up heart machines
...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine.
trying rich folks
Rich folk don't try so hard