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.
weather degrees mississippi
It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.
dark insanity feelings
I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.
dies decided
I have decided not to die.
house
Why don't we just build you an house outside Hilly?
want saying-nothing causes
I don't know what to say to her. All I know is, I ain't saying it. And I know she ain't saying what she want a say either and it's a strange thing happening here cause nobody saying nothing and we still managing to have us a conversation
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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.
powerful writing really-powerful
It can be really powerful to write something when youre sad.
years african-american president
I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come.
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.
eye years nurse
I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did.