Themes: Love has no boundaries

"We love her like, like she's our own family" pg. 453

Themes: Segregation

• Yule May's son beaten, blinded, and jailed because of use of white bathroom

• Skeeter segregation from the society women when she beings to voice opposing opinions 

I Have a Dream

Martin Luther King Junior 

Hilly's Initiative

The Home Help Sanitation Initiative

"Drop off any old toilets to the home of Mrs. Hilly Holbrooke"

Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan

"I expected the stories to be sweet, glossy. I realized I might be getting more than I bargained for" pg 168.  

“’These is white rules.  I don’t know which ones you followin’ and which ones you ain’t.’

We look at each other for a second. ‘I’m tired of rules.’” Pg. 173.


“Hilly raises her voice about three octaves when she talks to colored people.  Elizabeth smiles like she’s talking to a child, although certainly not her own.  I am starting to notice things.” Pg. 183.  

Minny

“What you think I am? A chauffeur? I ain’t driving you to no country club in the pouring rain.”  Pg.17.  

“Tuck it in Minny. Tuck in whatever might fly out my mouth and tuck in my behind to. Look like a maid who does what she's told.” pg. 36


“What am I doing? I must be crazy, giving a white woman the sworn secrets of the colored race to a white lady. Feel like I'm talking behind my own back" pg.253

Aibileen

"You is kind. You is smart. You is important." pg. 111

"Stop that moment from coming – and it come in every child's life – when they start to think that colored folks ain't as good as whites". 


“You see her in the Jitney 14 grocery, you never think she go and leave her baby crying in her crib like that.  But the help always know.” Pg. 5


“Three years ago today, Treelore died.  But by Miss Leefolt’s book it’s still floor cleaning day.”  Pg. 114