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Kathryn Stockett

I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.

– Kathryn Stockett

Kathryn Stockett

I think if you’re president, color goes away completely: you’re president and it doesn’t matter if you’re white, green or purple.

– Kathryn Stockett

Kathryn Stockett

I’m really incredibly stubborn – you can ask my ex-husband. I think when you tell me ‘no’, if it’s something I really want, I’m just going to push harder.

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Kathryn Stockett

I’m a Southerner – I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

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Kathryn Stockett

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can’t help but wonder how it’s going to make the reader feel.

– Kathryn Stockett

Kathryn Stockett

When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, ‘You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.’ It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself.

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Kathryn Stockett

That white uniform was her ‘pass’ to get into white places with us – the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the ‘rules’ had not.

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Kathryn Stockett

Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children.

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Kathryn Stockett

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

Kathryn Stockett

As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother.

– Kathryn Stockett

Kathryn Stockett

I grew up in the 1970s, but I don’t think a whole lot had changed from the ’60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books – but not in the kitchens of white homes.

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Kathryn Stockett

I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didn’t have any phone service and we didn’t have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed.

– Kathryn Stockett

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