Kathryn Stockett - Woman Quotes

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This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.

Kathryn Stockett

I look deep into her rich brown eyes and she look into mine. Law, she got old-soul eyes, like she done lived a thousand years. And I swear I see, down inside, the woman she gone grow up to be. She is tall and straight. She is proud. She got a better haircut. And she is remembering the words I put in her head. Remembering as a full-grown woman.

Kathryn Stockett

Womens, they ain't like men. A woman ain't gone beat you with a stick. Miss Hilly wouldn't pull no pistol on me. Miss Leefolt wouldn't come burn my house down. No, white womens like to keep they hands clean. They got a shiny little set of tools they use, sharp as witches' fingernails, tidy and laid out neat, like the picks on a dentist tray. They gone take they time with em.

Kathryn Stockett

Lord, I never seen blue hair on a black woman before or since. Leroy say you look like a cracker from outer space.

Kathryn Stockett