The Help Quotes

Aibileen to Mae Mobley

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”

Minny

“I ain’t never had no white woman sit down and ask me what it feel like to be me.”

Skeeter

“Wasn’t that the point of the book? For women to realise, we are just two people. Not that much separates us.”

Hilly

“A bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the coloured help. It’s just common sense.”

We all know about these laws, we live here, but we don’t talk about them. This is the first time I’ve ever seen them written down.

Skeeter about the Book

Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.

Elaine to Skeeter