Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.
Kathryn StockettStuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.
Kathryn StockettThis woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.
Kathryn StockettI look deep into her rich brown eyes and she look into mine. Law, she got old-soul eyes, like she done lived a thousand years. And I swear I see, down inside, the woman she gone grow up to be. She is tall and straight. She is proud. She got a better haircut. And she is remembering the words I put in her head. Remembering as a full-grown woman.
Kathryn Stockett