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Kathryn Stockett
American
Novelist
Born:
1969
Bathroom
Black
Think
Time
White
You
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When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, 'You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.' It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself.
Kathryn Stockett
Life
Beautiful
Me
You
Gift
Smart
Mirror
Parents
Important
Gone
Nothing
Hell
Older
Incredible
Herself
Give
Had
Divorced
Over
Child
You Are Beautiful
Stood
Grew
Wardrobe
Who
Awkward
Thinks
I sit in my little office and I feel like I've got all my readers staring at me.
Kathryn Stockett
Me
Sit
Feel
Like
Readers
Got
Office
Little
Staring
It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.
Kathryn Stockett
Sad
You
Something
Write
Powerful
Really
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.
Kathryn Stockett
Love
Women
Bathe
Our
Bathroom
Embrace
Silly
Something
Entrust
Feed
Ideas
Dichotomy
Children
Conflicting
Them
Us
Separate
Keep
Raise
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 Stockett
Family
Me
You
Perspective
Our
Member
Tell
Some
Maid
Like
Know
She
Readers
Always
Wonder
Interesting
Your
Treated
I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.
Kathryn Stockett
People
Wish
About
Talked
Subject
South
Race
Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up.
Kathryn Stockett
Time
Black
Bathroom
Way
Out
Having
Had
Faded
New
Were
Domestic
Up
Done
Just
Separate
Homes
Things
By The Time
But certainly in my grandmother's time - and when I was growing up, yeah, Demetrie's bathroom was on the side of the house, it was a separate door. Still, to this day, I've never been in that room.
Kathryn Stockett
Time
Day
Side
Bathroom
Never
House
Still
Yeah
Been
Up
Door
Room
Grandmother
Separate
Certainly
Growing
Growing Up
As I wrote, I found that Aibileen had some things to say that really weren't in her character. She was older, soft-spoken, and she started showing some attitude.
Kathryn Stockett
Attitude
Character
Older
Say
Some
Some Things
Had
Wrote
She
Were
Really
Showing
Found
Her
Things
Started
I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.
Kathryn Stockett
Law
White
Think
Changed
Books
Kitchens
Had
Lot
Up
Oh
Grew
Whole
Homes
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.
Kathryn Stockett
Truth
Truth Is
Think
Other
Tell
Read
Hand
Wonder
Going
Just
Anybody
Wanted
Story
Really
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.
Kathryn Stockett
Women
Year
Setting
Enough
President
Say
States
Obama
More
Stellar
Never
Simply
Come
Look
Proud
How
Am
How Far
Been
Than
Michelle
Michelle Obama
American
African-American
Cannot
Far
Elected
American President
Standard
American Women
United
United States
I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because we hadn't come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson's population was half white and half black, I didn't have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school.
Kathryn Stockett
Saying
Time
School
Black
Half
Single
White
Say
Neighbor
Born
No-One
Come
Look
Mississippi
Although
Because
How
How Far
Least
Friend
Very
Person
Jackson
Where
Place
Far
Even
Population
Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children.
Kathryn Stockett
Cleaning
Cooking
Wait
Black
Looking
White
Stayed
Kitchen
Mississippi
Came
Years
Domestic
Common
Children
After
Meals
Grandmother
That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the 'rules' had not.
Kathryn Stockett
White
Changed
State
Rules
Though
Laws
Segregation
Had
Fair
Pass
Get
Store
Places
Movies
Uniform
Us
Grocery
Grocery Store
Even
Her
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