Kathryn Stockett Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Kathryn Stockett quotes and sayings page 2 (novelist). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 25 we have.
“On the one hand I wonder, Was this really my story to tell? On the other hand, I just wanted the story to be told. But the truth is that I didn't think anybody was going to read it.”
“What a dichotomy. What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate.”
“What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate.”
“When Demetrie got sick, we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is, like so many families in the South, we also expected her to use a separate bathroom, to use separate utensils.”
“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.”
“Your white uniform as a black domestic was your ticket anywhere in town.”
“I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come.”
“I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.”
“I sit in my little office and I feel like I've got all my readers staring at me.”
“The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.”
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