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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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I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side, I'm glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn't really been discussed all that much. I'm glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective.
- Kathryn Stockett
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#Good
#Perspective
#Satisfaction
Your white uniform as a black domestic was your ticket anywhere in town.
- Kathryn Stockett
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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
#Bathroom
#Children
#Ideas
#Love
#Women
When Demetrie got sick, we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is, like so many families in the South, we also expected her to use a separate bathroom, to use separate utensils.
- Kathryn Stockett
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#Care
#Medical
#Responsibility
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
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#Day
#Door
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#Time
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
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#Black
#New
#Time
#Way
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
#Ideas
#Love
#Women
I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.
- Kathryn Stockett
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#Never
#Satisfaction
#Take
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.
- Kathryn Stockett
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#Hell
#Life
#Mirror
#Smart
I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.
- Kathryn Stockett
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#People
#Race
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#Wish
I sit in my little office and I feel like I've got all my readers staring at me.
- Kathryn Stockett
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#I Feel Like
#I Feel
#Me
#Sit
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.
- Kathryn Stockett
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#Children
#Cooking
#Looking
#Wait
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
#American
#I Am
#Look
#Proud
#Women
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
#Attitude
#Character
#Say
#She
#Things
It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.
- Kathryn Stockett
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#Really
#Sad
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