Quotes About Aibileen

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Kathryn Stockett

#8. As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them.

Lucy Hawking

#9. I feel bad for the kids that are in school right now and the young people all across America who don't realize that the grownups who are supposed to be running this country are the verge of leaving them as the first generation of Americans worse off than the generation before.

Marco Rubio

#10. The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.

Paulo Coelho

#11. 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

#12. My favorite is when you go to Afghanistan and you meet the special forces guys, and they look like these heavily armed surfers. These guys are the best. You see guys dressed as full Afghans, but then wearing a Yankees hat.

Robin Williams

#13. The Amity exchange smiles. They are dressed comfortably in red or yellow. Every time I see them, they seem kind, loving, free.

Veronica Roth

#14. I've seen the power of Life Coaching firsthand and I know how beneficial it can be.

Leeza Gibbons

#15. I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?

Tarsem Singh

#16. You may live in a small town, but that doesn't mean you have to get afflicted with one of the deadliest STD's - small town disease, which symptoms are repetitive droid-like behavior and a lack and shortage mentality

Robert J. Braathe

#17. Maturity understands that there's darkness in the world but that there's no need to dwell in it: we can lighten up and offer illumination to others.

Gina Barreca

#18. I'm a firm believer in people who love what they do.

Anthony Mackie