Hilly Holbrook: Maybe I can't send you to jail for what you wrote but I can send you for bein' a thief!
Aibileen Clark: I know somethin' about you, don't you forget that! From what Yule Mae says, there's a lot a time to write letters in jail. Plenty of time to write the truth about you. And the paper is free.
Charlotte Phelan: [sees Skeeter talking on the phone with Ms. Elaine Stain from New York City as she opens the door] Skeeter, who are you talkin' to in there.
Minny Jackson: [talking to Skeeter] You ain't nothin' left here but enemies in the Junior League. You've done burned every bridge there is. And you ain't never gonna get another man in this town. Everybody knows that. So don't walk your white butt to New York, run it!
Hilly Holbrook: [gets out of her car and she sees Skeeter sitting on the front porch and she is about to step on it] Skeeter, what are you doin' out here?
Aibileen Clark: [to Hilly] All you do is scare and lie to try and get what you want. You're a godless woman. Ain't you tired, Miss Hilly? Ain't you tired?
Hilly Holbrook: Maybe I can't send you to jail for what you wrote but I can send you for being a thief!
Aibileen Clark: I know something about you, don't you forget that! From what Yule Mae says, there's a lot of time to write letters in jail. Plenty of time to write the truth about you. And the paper is free.
Hilly Holbrook: That's why I'vr drafted the Home Health Sanitation Initiative.
Skeeter Phelan: The what?
Johnny Foote: A disease-preventative bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the coloured help. It's been endorsed by the White Citizens' Council.
Skeeter Phelan: Maybe we should just build you a bathroom outside, Hilly.
Hilly Holbrook: That's why I've drafted the Home Help Sanitation Initiative.
Skeeter Phelan: The what?
Hilly Holbrook: A disease-preventative bill that requires every white home to have a separated bathroom for the colored help. It's been endorsed by the White Citizen's Council.
Skeeter Phelan: Maybe we just build you a bathroom outside, Hilly.
Mrs. Walters: I may not know my name or forget what country I'm in most of the time but there are two things I can't seem to forget. That my own daughter put me in a nursing home and that she ate Minny's shit.
Elaine Stein: Eugenia, Martin Luther King just invited the entire country to march with him in DC in august. This many negros and whites have not worked together since 'Gone With The Wind'.
Minny Jackson: You ain't got nothing left here but enemies in the Junior League. You done burned every bridge there is. And you ain't never gonna
get another man in this town. Everybody know that. So don't walk your white butt to New York, run it!
Minny Jackson: Now Mr. Johnny gonna catch me here, and shoot me dead right here on this no-wax floor. You gots to tell him. Ain't he wondering how the cooking's so good?
Celia Foote: You're right. Maybe we ought to burn the chicken a little.
Elizabeth Leefolt: [smacks Mae in the leg while she's trying to get on the toilet that landed on Hilly's lawn] You will get a disease from these toilets!
Hilly Holbrook: [stands behind the bathroom door when Minny is using it] Minnie, are you in there? Minnie, are you on the toilet? Minnie, Minnie. YOU ARE FIRED!
Missus Walters: I may have trouble rememberin' my own name, or what country I live in. But there's two things I can't seem to forget. That my own daughter threw me into a nursin' home and that she ate Minny's shit. Good night.
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