Aibileen's Quotes

#1. She blow em clean over. She suck the grits off the candle and start eating. After while, she smile up at me, say, "How old are you?"
"Aibileen's fifty-three."
Her eyes get real wide. I might as well be a thousand.

Kathryn Stockett

#2. I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for me, I don't want anything to distract from the character.

Viola Davis

#3. I shake my head at my friend. "Not only is they lines, but you know good as I do where them lines be drawn." Aibileen shakes her head. "I used to believe in em. I don't anymore. They in our heads. People like Miss Hilly is always trying to make us believe they there. But they ain't.

Kathryn Stockett

#4. Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.

John Ruskin

#5. In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.

Noah Feldman

#6. When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.

Dorothy Day

#7. Ever afternoon, me and Baby Girl set in the. rocking chair before her nap. Ever afternoon, I tell her: You kind, you smart, you important. But she growing up and I know, soon, them few words ain't gone be enough.

Kathryn Stockett

#8. Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

Chinua Achebe

#9. If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints.

Allan Nevins

#10. She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because she had slept in some stable loft.

Victor Hugo

#11. As I wrote, I found that Aibileen had some things to say that really weren't in her character. She was older, soft-spoken, and she started showing some attitude.

Kathryn Stockett

#12. You're the smartest one in the class, Aibileen," she say. "And the only way you're going to keep sharp is to read and write every day.

Kathryn Stockett

#13. One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.

Gautama Buddha

#14. 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.

Kathryn Stockett

#15. One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could hurt you - and Darwin posited that it might be rooted in maternal instinct, in sacrificing yourself for your children.

Isabella Rossellini

#16. Things ain't never gone change in this town , Aibileen. We living in hell. Our kids is trapped.

Kathryn Stockett

#17. He was becoming aware that there was no such thing as over-the-top with Lawrence Davenport, as long as you were talking to Lawrence Davenport about Lawrence Davenport.

Jeffrey Archer

#18. Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don't think Fortune has anything to do with it?

Amy Neftzger

#19. Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

Robert Walpole

#20. God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love.

Swami Vivekananda

#21. praise publicly, but criticize privately.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#22. For holidays, I like doing special cheery touches around the table, like color-coordinating the plates and napkins to fit the theme.

Debi Mazar