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The Help Flashcards

1
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A bitter seed was planted inside a me

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Abileen 1:3

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Everybody knows they carry different diseases than we do

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Hilly 1:8

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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

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Minny 2:21

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Miss Skeeter asking don’t I want to change things, like chabging Jackson, Missisippi gone be like changing a lightbulb

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Abileen 2:24

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the fool doesn’t have any shoes on, like some kind of white trash. Nice white ladies don’t go around barefoot

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Minny 3:31

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when you gone have you some chilluns, start filling up all these beds?

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Minny 3:33

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like the shake n’ bake commercials on the tee-vee?

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Celia 3:44

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Or at least I cook and Miss Celia fidgets, looking more like a five-year-old than the rich lady paying my rent

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Minny 4:48

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Miss Celia won’t leave the house except to get her hair frosted and her ends trimmed

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4:48

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10
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Don’t do it good. Leave some smudges

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4:49

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11
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It’s like an itch. Everyday, it itches a little worse.

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Minny 4:50

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12
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Four years my daughter goes off to college and what does she come home with? A pretty piece of paper

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Charlotte 5:55

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Why, every week I see another man in town over six feet and I think, if Eugenia would just try

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Charlotte 5:55

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14
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“Be nice to the little colored girls when you’re doen there”…but Mother never explained

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Charlotte 5:62

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15
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You gone have to ask yourself, Am I gone believe what them fools said about me today?

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Constantine 5:63

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16
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It was having someone… whose eyes simply said, without words, ‘You are fine with me’.

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Skeeter (Constantine) 5:65

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17
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All my close friends had dropped out to get married.

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Skeeter 5:68

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18
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And it was like she was delivering the weather, Mother said “Constantine is no longer employed here.”

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Skeeter 5:68

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19
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“You cannot leave a Negro and Niagra together unchaperoned”

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Skeeter (Mother’s words) 6:70

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20
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“When you’re not…fixing your boss’s coffe, look around, investigate, and write”

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Elaine Stein (letter) 6:71

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21
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Are you…do you…find men attractive?

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Charlotte 6:75

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22
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Lady, you didn’t raise your child at all

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Abileen (Elizabeth) 7:95

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23
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Did you hear about the colored boy this morning? One they beat with a tire for accidently using the white bathroom?

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Abileen 7:103

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24
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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

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Skeeter 8:104

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25
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Please, Miss Skeeter. Miss Leefolt have a fit if she find you giving me cash

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Abileen 8:108

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26
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How do you like your new bathroom out there? It’s nice to have a place of your own

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Hilly 8:111

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27
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out of breath and sweaty and windblown

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Skeeter (pre-Stuart’s date) 9:116

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28
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drop-dead drunk

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Skeeter (Stuart) 9:119

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29
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I’ve served enough bridge club luncheons to know something about every white woman in this town.

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Minny 10:126

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30
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We’re prime members and we deserve a prime spot

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Minny (church) 10:126

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31
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even on a day off, I can’t escape the fear of that man.

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Minny 10:133

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32
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If the truth gets out on me, I’m done

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Minny 10:141

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33
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I keep walking, feeling as obvious as my vehicle: large and white.

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Skeeter 11:143

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34
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I’ve never sat ar the same table as a Negro who wasn’t paid to do so.

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11:143

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35
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It feel…

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Abileen 11:145

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36
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You don’t know the Terrible Awful Thing I did

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Minny 2:27

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37
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you better tell them he your high yellow cause that colored doctor won’t operate on a white boy in a Negro hospital.

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Abileen 11:151

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38
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I’ve got a total of twelve words. And four of them are yes ma’am and no ma’am

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Skeeter 11:146

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39
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Shame ain’t black, like dirt…the color of a new white uniform.

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Abileen 11:151

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40
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You know colored folk ain’t allowed in that library. There was a sit-in…turned the German Shepard’s loose.

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Skeeter 12:154

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41
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What if Elizabeth or Hilly catches us at what we’re doing? What if Abileen gets fired, sent to jail?

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Skeeter 12:156

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42
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I’ve had nothing to eat today except Mother’s sexual-correction tea.

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Skeeter 12:156

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43
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White’s can become prrmanently disabled by nearly all of these diseases as we lack immunities coloreds carry in their darker pigmentation.

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Hilly (Help Sanitation Initiative) 12:158

44
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Why you even care about this? You white.

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Minny 12:164

45
Q

I’ve never met anyone who says exactly what they were thinking. Not a woman, anyway.

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Stuart (Skeeter) 13:169

46
Q

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.

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Skeeter 13:172

47
Q

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.

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Skeeter 13:175

48
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I been in some tense situations, but to have Minny on one side a my living room and Miss Skeeter on the other

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Abileen 14:182

49
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Women’s, they aint like men. A woman ain’t gone beat you with a stick…the white lady don’t ever forget.

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Abileen 14:188

50
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Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don’t know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly

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Abileen 14:192

51
Q

Look, I found that paraphernalia of yours

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Hilly (Skeeter’s miscellaneous articles) 15:205

52
Q

Miss Skeeter can’t do the front sell. She’d scare them off before she even opened her mouth.

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Abileen 16:208

53
Q

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.

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Minny 17:215

54
Q

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.

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Minny 17:222

55
Q

I pray to God I can get my job back on Monday.

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Minny 17:228

56
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I don’t think this would qualify as looking after if she’s drunk in the bathtub.

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Minny (Celia) 18:231

57
Q

Will you fish my dead baby out of that toilet bowl.

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Minny (Celia’s change of character) 18:233

58
Q

He’s gone forget these babies cause mens is real good at that.

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Minny 18:235

59
Q

They’d held on to their virginity with the fierceness of children refusing to share their toys. And yet, I consider it.

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Skeeter 19:240

60
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this the first time I’ve ever thanked her sincerely

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Skeeter (Abileen) 19:245

61
Q

it’s not line [smoking] going to kill me

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Skeeter 19:248

62
Q

Being white, I feel it’s my duty to help them

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Skeeter 19:254

63
Q

My nervousness rises like a trill in my throat as I realise, she knows.

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Skeeter 20:263

64
Q

I’m starting to realise that I don’t know Stuart

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Skeeter 20:271

65
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I let their colored memories draw me out of my own miserable life.

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Skeeter 21:276

66
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I no longer feel protected because I am white

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Skeeter 21:278

67
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I will not that initiative.

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Skeeter 21:279

68
Q

I wait for her to catch the itony of this, that she’ll send money to colored people overseas but not across town.

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Skeeter 21:280

69
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I reckon her mean old mama never get her what she wanted when she was little

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Abileen (Elizabeth’s mum) 21:283

70
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Do you have some babies?

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Mae 21:284

71
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His daddy would take him to the garage and whip him with a rubber hose pipe to beat the girl out of that boy

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Abileen (gay kid she cared for) 21:285

72
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When I find her I will kill her myself.

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Hilly (Skeeter putting toilets in initiative) 22:287

73
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It ain’t the color of the wrapping that count, it’s what we is inside.

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Abileen (Mae) 23:296

74
Q

Hearing your maid’s a thief is like hearing your teacher’s a twiddler

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Minny 24:301

75
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It’s not like the old days when she was pregnant. Now she can’t wait to get out of the door.

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Minny (Celia) 24:301

76
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this time he was beating me stone-cold sober…for the pure pleasure of it

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Minny 24:304

77
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I see the white-trash girl she was ten years ago. She was strong. She didn’t take no shit from nobody.

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Minny 24:309

78
Q

Everything about her oozes sex, sex and more sex.

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Minny (Celia) 24:318

79
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the only genuine parts of Hilly you can see are her fingers and her face

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Stockett 25:321

80
Q

real skin, real cleavage, perhaps not-so-real blonde hair

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Stockett (Celia) 25:321

81
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He should’ve married…Hilly.

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Celia 26:336

82
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The way Hilly looked at me…like I was nothing. Like I was trash on the side of the road

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26:336

83
Q

For Two-Slice Hilly

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26:341

84
Q

People tend to treat you a little differently than before

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Skeeter 27:345

85
Q

I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.

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Skeeter 27:345

86
Q

I am loving him, yet hating him at the same time.

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Skeeter 27:354

87
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Sorry is the fool who underestimates my mother.

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Skeeter 27:357

88
Q

They say it’s like true love, good help. You only get one in a lifetime.

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Charlotte (apology to Skeeter for Constantine) 28:372

89
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skeleton in a white dressing gown with absurdly fancy ribbons and starched face

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Skeeter (Charlotte) 28:374

90
Q

I have decided not to die

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Charlotte 28:384

91
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Wearing nothing but they personalities, but Miss Leefolt don’t do like that.

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29:388

92
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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.

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29:392

93
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Miss Hilly called him a dn told him I was a thief. He found out about the pie. He knows about the book.

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Minny 30:404

94
Q

Usually, he doesn’t touch me when I’m pregnant.

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Minny 30:406

95
Q

I bet we even know some of these Niagra maids.

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Hilly 31:408

96
Q

That means Miss Leefolt just read her part and kept on going.

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Abileen 31:408

97
Q

My baby white girl gone colored herself black.

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Abileen 31:409

98
Q

How can I love a man who beats me raw? Why do I love a fool drinker?

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Minny 32:413

99
Q

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

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Minny 32:413

100
Q

I have nothing left here, no friends, no job I really care about, no stuart

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Skeeter 33:415

101
Q

Who is thirty-five and beautiful and clearly homosexual

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Skeeter (third-cousin) 33:415

102
Q

That was not me WHO ATE THAT PIE!

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Hilly 33:423

103
Q

Minny made us put the pie in the story to protect us. You are a beautiful person Minny.

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Abileen 34:429

104
Q

Go to New York…Go find your life.

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Abileen (Skeeter) 34:435

105
Q

You is kind…you is smart. You is important.

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Abileen 34:443

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