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.
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.
touching satisfaction nerves
Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.
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.
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.
kindness boundaries no-boundaries
All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.
names two wrinkles
Her nose wrinkle up cause now she got to remember to say she Mae Mobley Three, when her whole life she can remember, she been telling people she Mae Mobley Two. When you little, you only get asked two questions, what's your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.
challenges everyday pills
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.
names two littles
When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.
rights stories happens
....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.