The Help Flashcards
A bitter seed was planted inside a me
Abileen 1:3
Everybody knows they carry different diseases than we do
Hilly 1:8
She telling everybody in town I’m stealing! That’s why I can’t get no work! That witch done turned me into the Smart Mouthed Criminal Maid
Minny 2:21
Miss Skeeter asking don’t I want to change things, like chabging Jackson, Missisippi gone be like changing a lightbulb
Abileen 2:24
the fool doesn’t have any shoes on, like some kind of white trash. Nice white ladies don’t go around barefoot
Minny 3:31
when you gone have you some chilluns, start filling up all these beds?
Minny 3:33
like the shake n’ bake commercials on the tee-vee?
Celia 3:44
Or at least I cook and Miss Celia fidgets, looking more like a five-year-old than the rich lady paying my rent
Minny 4:48
Miss Celia won’t leave the house except to get her hair frosted and her ends trimmed
4:48
Don’t do it good. Leave some smudges
4:49
It’s like an itch. Everyday, it itches a little worse.
Minny 4:50
Four years my daughter goes off to college and what does she come home with? A pretty piece of paper
Charlotte 5:55
Why, every week I see another man in town over six feet and I think, if Eugenia would just try
Charlotte 5:55
“Be nice to the little colored girls when you’re doen there”…but Mother never explained
Charlotte 5:62
You gone have to ask yourself, Am I gone believe what them fools said about me today?
Constantine 5:63
It was having someone… whose eyes simply said, without words, ‘You are fine with me’.
Skeeter (Constantine) 5:65
All my close friends had dropped out to get married.
Skeeter 5:68
And it was like she was delivering the weather, Mother said “Constantine is no longer employed here.”
Skeeter 5:68
“You cannot leave a Negro and Niagra together unchaperoned”
Skeeter (Mother’s words) 6:70
“When you’re not…fixing your boss’s coffe, look around, investigate, and write”
Elaine Stein (letter) 6:71
Are you…do you…find men attractive?
Charlotte 6:75
Lady, you didn’t raise your child at all
Abileen (Elizabeth) 7:95
Did you hear about the colored boy this morning? One they beat with a tire for accidently using the white bathroom?
Abileen 7:103
I thought it would be like viditing Constantine, where friendly colored people waved and smiled, happy to see the little white girl whose daddy owned the big farm
Skeeter 8:104
Please, Miss Skeeter. Miss Leefolt have a fit if she find you giving me cash
Abileen 8:108
How do you like your new bathroom out there? It’s nice to have a place of your own
Hilly 8:111
out of breath and sweaty and windblown
Skeeter (pre-Stuart’s date) 9:116
drop-dead drunk
Skeeter (Stuart) 9:119
I’ve served enough bridge club luncheons to know something about every white woman in this town.
Minny 10:126
We’re prime members and we deserve a prime spot
Minny (church) 10:126
even on a day off, I can’t escape the fear of that man.
Minny 10:133
If the truth gets out on me, I’m done
Minny 10:141
I keep walking, feeling as obvious as my vehicle: large and white.
Skeeter 11:143
I’ve never sat ar the same table as a Negro who wasn’t paid to do so.
11:143
It feel…
Abileen 11:145
You don’t know the Terrible Awful Thing I did
Minny 2:27
you better tell them he your high yellow cause that colored doctor won’t operate on a white boy in a Negro hospital.
Abileen 11:151
I’ve got a total of twelve words. And four of them are yes ma’am and no ma’am
Skeeter 11:146
Shame ain’t black, like dirt…the color of a new white uniform.
Abileen 11:151
You know colored folk ain’t allowed in that library. There was a sit-in…turned the German Shepard’s loose.
Skeeter 12:154
What if Elizabeth or Hilly catches us at what we’re doing? What if Abileen gets fired, sent to jail?
Skeeter 12:156
I’ve had nothing to eat today except Mother’s sexual-correction tea.
Skeeter 12:156
White’s can become prrmanently disabled by nearly all of these diseases as we lack immunities coloreds carry in their darker pigmentation.
Hilly (Help Sanitation Initiative) 12:158
Why you even care about this? You white.
Minny 12:164
I’ve never met anyone who says exactly what they were thinking. Not a woman, anyway.
Stuart (Skeeter) 13:169
Inside, some one has written NIGGER BOOK in purple crayon. I am not as dosturbed by the words as by the fact that the handwriting looks like a third grader’s.
Skeeter 13:172
Try not to notice how when a regular girl gets asked out, it’s information, but when Skeeter Phelan gets asked out, it’s news.
Skeeter 13:175
I been in some tense situations, but to have Minny on one side a my living room and Miss Skeeter on the other
Abileen 14:182
Women’s, they aint like men. A woman ain’t gone beat you with a stick…the white lady don’t ever forget.
Abileen 14:188
Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don’t know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly
Abileen 14:192
Look, I found that paraphernalia of yours
Hilly (Skeeter’s miscellaneous articles) 15:205
Miss Skeeter can’t do the front sell. She’d scare them off before she even opened her mouth.
Abileen 16:208
I think if God had intended for white people and colored people to be this close together for so much of the day, he would have made us colorblind.
Minny 17:215
I nursed a worthlesspint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I’d never marry one. And then I did.
Minny 17:222
I pray to God I can get my job back on Monday.
Minny 17:228
I don’t think this would qualify as looking after if she’s drunk in the bathtub.
Minny (Celia) 18:231
Will you fish my dead baby out of that toilet bowl.
Minny (Celia’s change of character) 18:233
He’s gone forget these babies cause mens is real good at that.
Minny 18:235
They’d held on to their virginity with the fierceness of children refusing to share their toys. And yet, I consider it.
Skeeter 19:240
this the first time I’ve ever thanked her sincerely
Skeeter (Abileen) 19:245
it’s not line [smoking] going to kill me
Skeeter 19:248
Being white, I feel it’s my duty to help them
Skeeter 19:254
My nervousness rises like a trill in my throat as I realise, she knows.
Skeeter 20:263
I’m starting to realise that I don’t know Stuart
Skeeter 20:271
I let their colored memories draw me out of my own miserable life.
Skeeter 21:276
I no longer feel protected because I am white
Skeeter 21:278
I will not that initiative.
Skeeter 21:279
I wait for her to catch the itony of this, that she’ll send money to colored people overseas but not across town.
Skeeter 21:280
I reckon her mean old mama never get her what she wanted when she was little
Abileen (Elizabeth’s mum) 21:283
Do you have some babies?
Mae 21:284
His daddy would take him to the garage and whip him with a rubber hose pipe to beat the girl out of that boy
Abileen (gay kid she cared for) 21:285
When I find her I will kill her myself.
Hilly (Skeeter putting toilets in initiative) 22:287
It ain’t the color of the wrapping that count, it’s what we is inside.
Abileen (Mae) 23:296
Hearing your maid’s a thief is like hearing your teacher’s a twiddler
Minny 24:301
It’s not like the old days when she was pregnant. Now she can’t wait to get out of the door.
Minny (Celia) 24:301
this time he was beating me stone-cold sober…for the pure pleasure of it
Minny 24:304
I see the white-trash girl she was ten years ago. She was strong. She didn’t take no shit from nobody.
Minny 24:309
Everything about her oozes sex, sex and more sex.
Minny (Celia) 24:318
the only genuine parts of Hilly you can see are her fingers and her face
Stockett 25:321
real skin, real cleavage, perhaps not-so-real blonde hair
Stockett (Celia) 25:321
He should’ve married…Hilly.
Celia 26:336
The way Hilly looked at me…like I was nothing. Like I was trash on the side of the road
26:336
For Two-Slice Hilly
26:341
People tend to treat you a little differently than before
Skeeter 27:345
I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.
Skeeter 27:345
I am loving him, yet hating him at the same time.
Skeeter 27:354
Sorry is the fool who underestimates my mother.
Skeeter 27:357
They say it’s like true love, good help. You only get one in a lifetime.
Charlotte (apology to Skeeter for Constantine) 28:372
skeleton in a white dressing gown with absurdly fancy ribbons and starched face
Skeeter (Charlotte) 28:374
I have decided not to die
Charlotte 28:384
Wearing nothing but they personalities, but Miss Leefolt don’t do like that.
29:388
Miss Taylor says kids that are coloured can’t go to my school cause they’re not smart enough. You’re rughter than Miss Taylor.
29:392
Miss Hilly called him a dn told him I was a thief. He found out about the pie. He knows about the book.
Minny 30:404
Usually, he doesn’t touch me when I’m pregnant.
Minny 30:406
I bet we even know some of these Niagra maids.
Hilly 31:408
That means Miss Leefolt just read her part and kept on going.
Abileen 31:408
My baby white girl gone colored herself black.
Abileen 31:409
How can I love a man who beats me raw? Why do I love a fool drinker?
Minny 32:413
They think big strong Minny, she sure can stand up for herself. But they don’t know what a pathetic mess I turn into when Leroy’s beating on me
Minny 32:413
I have nothing left here, no friends, no job I really care about, no stuart
Skeeter 33:415
Who is thirty-five and beautiful and clearly homosexual
Skeeter (third-cousin) 33:415
That was not me WHO ATE THAT PIE!
Hilly 33:423
Minny made us put the pie in the story to protect us. You are a beautiful person Minny.
Abileen 34:429
Go to New York…Go find your life.
Abileen (Skeeter) 34:435
You is kind…you is smart. You is important.
Abileen 34:443
