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181 " Taking care a white babies, that’s what I do, along with all the cooking and the cleaning. I done raised seventeen kids in my lifetime. I know how to get them babies to sleep, stop crying, and go in the toilet bowl before they mamas even get out a bed in the morning. "
― Kathryn Stockett , The Help
182 " I nursed a worthless, pint 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. "
183 " He moves closer and leans down so I will look at him. And I feel sick, literally nauseated by the smell of bourbon on his breath. And yet I still want to fold myself up and put my entire body in his arms. I am loving him and hating him at the same time. "
184 " I can't wear a man's jacket with a ball gown." She rolls her eyes at him, sighs. But thanks, honey. "
185 " When I started typing her bathroom iniative for the newsletter, typing words like disease and protect yourself and you're welcome! it was like something cracked open inside of me, not unlike a watermelon, cool and soothing sweet. I always thought insanity would be a dark and bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it. "
186 " She got a confused, disgusted look on her face, like she done salted her coffee instead a sugared it. "
187 " I don't regret it, but I don't feel quite as lucky anymore. "
188 " 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. "
189 " Week after Clyde left you I heard that Cocoa wake up to her cootchie spoilt like a rotten oyster. Didn't get better for three months. Bertrina she good friends with Cocoa She knows your prayer works. "
190 " Maybe I ain't too old to start over, I think and I laugh and cry at the same time at this. Cause just last night I thought I was finished with everything new. "
191 " Tonight, I'll strip off all this armor and let it be as it was before.. "
192 " I tucked this away, afraid to admit how good it was to hear it. "
193 " I never once heard her say she gone leave Leroy, and Minny don't say things twice. When she do things, they done the first time. "
194 " A course we different! Everybody know colored people and white people ain't the same. But we still just people. "
195 " Because ain’t that white people for you, wondering if they are happy enough. "
196 " Miss Skeeter say maybe don't spec nothing at all, that most Southern peoples is "repressed." If they feel something, they might not say a word. Just hold they breath and wait for it to pass, like gas. "
197 " If I'd played Mammy, I'd of told Scarlett to stick those green draperies up her white little pooper. Make her own damn man-catching dress. -Minny "
198 " But Lou Anne, she understood the point of the book before she even read it. The one who was missing the point this time was me. "
199 " I guess we all get a little snippy when we're not feeling good. "
200 " No, white women like to keep their hands clean. They got a shiny little set a tools they use, sharp as witches' fingernails, tidy and laid out neat, like the picks on a dentist tray. They gonna take they time with em. "