Minny JacksonNo, ma'am, but you is about to. 'Cause you just did.
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Missus WaltersI may have trouble remembering my own name, or what country I live in, but there are two things I can't seem to forget: that my own daughter threw me into a nursing home, and that she ate Minny's shit.
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Hilly HolbrookMaybe I can't send you to jail for what you wrote, but I can send you for being a thief.
Aibileen ClarkI 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.
Constantine JeffersonThat's all right. Some things we just got to keep to ourselves.
Eugenia 'Skeeter' PhelanThe boys say I'm ugly. Mama was the third runner-up in the Miss South Carolina pageant...
Constantine JeffersonNow you quit feeling sorry for yourself. Now that's ugly. Ugly is something that grows up from inside you. It's mean and hurtful, like them boys. Now you not one of them, is you?
[Skeeter shakes her head]
Constantine JeffersonI didn't think so, honey. Every day you're not dead in the ground, when you wake up in the morning, you're gonna have to make some decisions. Got to ask yourself this question: "Am I gonna believe all them bad things them fools say about me today?" You hear me? "Am I gonna believe all them bad things them fools say about me today?" All right? As for your mama, she didn't pick her life. It picked her. But you, you're gonna do something big with yours. You wait and see.
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Mae MobleyYou my real mama, Aibee.
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Aibileen ClarkIn just 10 minutes, the only life I knew was done.
Mae Mobley[calling after her through the window]A-a-a-aibee!
Aibileen ClarkGod says we need to love our enemies. It hard to do. But it can start by telling the truth. No one had ever asked me what it feel like to be me. Once I told the truth about that, I felt free. And I got to thinking about all the people I know. And the things I seen and done. My boy Treelore always said we gonna have a writer in the family one day. I guess it's gonna be me.
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[Minny and Celia are discussing Celia's husband]
Minny JacksonNow I ain't messin' around no more. 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?
Charlotte PhelanYou know Hilly, if I didn't know any better, I'd say you've been eating too much *pie*.
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Charlotte PhelanCourage sometimes skips a generation. Thank you for bringing it back to our family.
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Johnny FooteListen, Celia finally told me about the babies. All of them. But I also know that the minute you started working here, she started getting better. You saved her life.
Minny JacksonYou mean, you knew I'd been working here this whole time?
Johnny FooteFried chicken and okra the first night? I mean, you all could have at least put some cornpone on the table.
Minny JacksonNo, I can't let you eat no more cornpone, Mr. Johnny.
Johnny FooteWell, thanks to you, now I've have to let out every pair of pants I own.
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Aibileen Clark18 people were killed in Jackson that night. 10 white and 8 black. I don't think God has color in mind when he sets a tornado loose.
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Aibileen ClarkI was born 1911, Chicksaw County, Piedmont Plantation.
Johnny FooteYou have a job here for the rest of your life. If you want it.
Minny Jackson[smiles in acceptance]That's a mile-high meringue, Miss Celia?
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Minny JacksonFried chicken just tend to make you feel better about life.
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Minny Jackson[to Skeeter]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!
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Preacher GreenIf you can love your enemy, you already have victory.
Hilly Holbrook[Shoves Skeeter]Oh, I don't, do I? You tell Aibileen the next time she wants to write about my good friend Elizabeth... Hm? Remember her? Had you in her wedding?... Let's just say Aibileen should have been a bit smarter before writing about that L-shaped scratch in poor Elizabeth's dining table.
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Hilly HolbrookAnd that nigger Minny... do I have plans for her.
Hilly HolbrookA disease-preventative bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the colored help. It's been endorsed by the White Citizen's Council.
Mr. BlacklyI guarantee you, one day they're going to figure out cigarettes will kill you.
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Charlotte PhelanLove and hate are two horns on the same goat, Eugenia. And you need a goat.
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Charlotte PhelanYour eggs are dying. Would it kill you to go on a date?
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Aibileen Clark[to Hilly]All you do is scare and lie to try and get what you want.
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Aibileen ClarkMrs. Leefolt should not be having babies. Put that in the book.
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Aibileen ClarkMiss Leefolt got so much hairspray on her head, she gonna blow us all up if she light a cigarette.
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Hilly Holbrook[about the pie]What do you put in here that makes it taste so good?
Minny JacksonThat good vanilla from Mexico and something else real special.
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Aibileen ClarkI ain't never had no white person in my house before.
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Stuart WhitworthIsn't that what all you girls from Ole Miss major in? Professional husband-hunting?
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Elizabeth Leefolt[after Mae Mobley has used a toilet dropped on Hilly's lawn, Elizabeth pulls her off and spanks her; crying sounds are heard offscreen]You will get a disease from those toilets!