Kathryn Stockett is an American novelist. She is known for her 2009 debut novel, The Help, which is about African-American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the 1960s. Hope, our collection of Kathryn Stockett Quotes will inspire you to fight against racism.
I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.
– Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett Quotes
1. “I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.” – Kathryn Stockett
2. “It can be really powerful to write something when you’re sad.” – Kathryn Stockett
3. “Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious.” – Kathryn Stockett
4. “And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.” – Kathryn Stockett
5. “Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.” – Kathryn Stockett
6. “The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach.” – Kathryn Stockett
7. “That’s the way prayer do. It’s like electricity, it keeps things going.” – Kathryn Stockett
8. “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.” – Kathryn Stockett
9. “Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.” – Kathryn Stockett
10. “it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.” – Kathryn Stockett
11. “Courage sometimes skips a generation.” – Kathryn Stockett
12. “All I’m saying is, kindness don’t have no boundaries.” – Kathryn Stockett
13. “I think if you’re president, color goes away completely: you’re president and it doesn’t matter if you’re white, green or purple.” – Kathryn Stockett
14. “Everybody knows they carry different kinds of diseases than we do.” – Kathryn Stockett
15. “Truth. It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that’s been burning me up all my life. Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling.” – Kathryn Stockett
