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Jeg har fem unger og er stolt over at jeg lærte dem å si ja, ma'am og vær så snill før de kunne si så mye som kake. Alle bortsett fra en.

Hun har så mange asaleabusker at hagen kommer til å ligne den i Tatt av vinden når våren kommer. Jeg liker ikke asaleaer, og jeg likte hvertfall ikke den filmen, sånn som de fikk slaveri til å se ut som rene teselskapet. Hadde jeg spilt Mammy, skulle jeg bedt Scarlett stikke de grønne draperiene opp i den lille, hvite stumpen sin. Så kunne hun sydd sin egen pokkers kjole for å innynde seg hos mannfolka.

... don't walk your white butt to New York, run it.

... I shrug, try not to notice, how when a regular girl gets asked out, it's information, but when Skeeter Phelan gets asked out, it's news.

It's Tuesday, change-the-damn-sheets day. If I don't do it today, that makes Wednesday change-the-damn-sheets day too.

I don't know why the bad have to happen to the goodest ones.

... he start laughing and memoring how I'd do him when he was a boy. How the first time his foot fell asleep and he say it tickle, I told him that was just his foot snoring. And how I told him don't drink coffee or he gone turn colored. He say he still ain't drunk a cup a coffee and he twenty-one years old.

She like one a them baby chickens that get confused and follow the ducks around instead.

"Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision." Constantine was so close, I could see the blackness of her gums. "You gone have to ask yourself, Am I gone belive what them fools say about me today?"

Mrs. Charlotte Phelan's Guide to Husband-Hunting, Rule Number One: a pretty, petite girl should accentuate with makeup and good posture. A tall plain one, with a trust fund.