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
bathe bathroom children embrace feed love raise silly women
What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate.
dies decided
I have decided not to die.
house
Why don't we just build you an house outside Hilly?
smart cheer-up important
You is kind. You is smart. You is important.
new-beginnings bourbon raises
Here's to new beginnings," Stuart says and raises his bourbon. I nod, sort of wanting to tell him that all beginnings are new.
hot would-be
Who knew heartbreak would be so goddamn hot.
touching satisfaction nerves
Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.
home black done
Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up.
paper ink vicious
Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious
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.
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.
trying rich folks
Rich folk don't try so hard
filled-up light blue
...out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body-my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside of me filled up with light.