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

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?

I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.

That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.

it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.

Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the Think buttons.

It weren’t too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn’t feel so, accepting, anymore.

You are the characterize, values and beliefs that are inherent only inside you

Your job is not to judge. Your job is not to figure out if someone deserves something. Your job is to lift the fallen, to restore the broken, and to heal the hurting.

Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.

When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.

Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying.

There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.

We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.