Kathryn Stockett

It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#humor

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. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#life

He needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#heartbreak #love #physics #relationships #love

Eres buena, eres lista, eres importante. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#spanish #spanish

I never once heard her say she gone leave Leroy, and Minny don't say things twice. When she do things, they done the first time. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#inspirational

Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#shame #work #inspirational

Some things I just got to keep for myself. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#life

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. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#bathroom #children #conflicting #embrace #entrust

Your white uniform as a black domestic was your ticket anywhere in town. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#black #domestic #ticket #town #uniform

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. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#family #i #i wonder #interesting #know