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The Help Quotes Showing 1-30 of 422. “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.” ― Kathryn Stockett, The Help. tags: inspirational. 4127 likes. Like. “Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?”
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Elaine Stein includes this piece of advice in her first letter to Skeeter that appears in Chapter 6, offering advice on how to be a successful writer. Thus far, Skeeter has mainly had experience writing papers for school, personal short stories, and puff pieces for the Junior League’s newsletter. Though Skeeter has aspirations to be a writer, she s...
Skeeter has this realization in Chapter 19 once she begins interviewing more maids for her book. She hears stories of how some women are still friends with the white women their mothers took care of as young girls, and she learns of how her acquaintance, Lou Anne, took care of Louvenia after her son was attacked and blinded. However, Skeeter also h...
In Chapter 5, Skeeter recalls Constantine saying these words to her when Skeeter was thirteen, upset that her brother’s friend had called her ugly. As an adult, Skeeter knows she is not conventionally attractive, as she is taller than most men and has frizzy, unruly hair. She is also constantly reminded of this by her mother. However, Constantine, ...
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The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, is a novel about black maids working in white homes in Jackson, Mississippi, in the early 1960s. The stories of the maids wouldn’t be told if it wasn’t for Miss Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan.
1. “Love and hate are two horns on the same goat.” – Minny Jackson. 2. “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.” – Aibileen Clark. 3. “You said to write about what disturbs me, particularly if it bothers no one else.” – Skeeter Phelan. 4. “Courage sometimes skips a generation. Thank you for bringin’ it back to our family.” – Charlotte Phelan.
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