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

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.

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.

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

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem.

Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me.

With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.

I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.

The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.

Fill your mind with compassion.

I hate having people sit in on meetings.

Some people say 'Why is a football coach concerned?' I explained I'm an American first and all Americans should care about justice.

Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.