No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.

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 don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq.

Nobody stays in the world that you've seen them in before.

Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.

The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones.

I don't trust their [Bill and Hillary Clinton ] sense of boundaries.

I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.

It takes no courage to say or do what's popular.

If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

Redneck law: Must have a gun. Must shoot it regularly.