What a dichotomy. 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 Read Quote
But certainly in my grandmother’s time – and when I was growing up, yeah, Demetrie’s bathroom was on the side of the house, it was a separate door. Still, to this day, I’ve never been in that room. Kathryn Stockett Read Quote
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. Kathryn Stockett Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South. Kathryn Stockett Read Quote
As I wrote, I found that Aibileen had some things to say that really weren’t in her character. She was older, soft-spoken, and she started showing some attitude. Kathryn Stockett Read Quote
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. Kathryn Stockett Read Quote
