The Calamity Club Quotes

“If you give a girl a taste of fresh air and then take it away, she will grow fierce and wild to get that fresh air back again.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“This slapped-together band of misfits made me feel, for the first time, that I truly belonged. How the hell, I wondered, did I ever get so lucky?”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“I have been told I tend to overthink things. Well I have known enough people to underthink things and could stand to put a little more thought in their decisions.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“...you stick that up your ass, you stinky hooker whore, Flossie said back to her. No Flossie, we don't call Ruby a stinky hooker whore while we're at the table.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“My entire life’s assignment is to ask questions. Why else are we even here?”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“All I’m asking for is a decent view, some hard candies, and something to damn read. Is that too much to ask for in life?”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“Unfortunately, paint can’t fix what’s rotten down deep, Meg. There is bound to be a life lesson in there somewhere.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“I didn’t have to wonder much what’d enlightened me—in a few weeks, I’d fallen in love with a married man, had my eyebrows plucked, started a dance club when my sister was out of town, and was getting dropped off at church by five prostitutes.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“I couldn’t keep my mouth shut long enough to be sexy, the funny was all I had.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“Sometimes you wash the spoon, sometimes the spoon washes you, so be sure and put a apron on.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all!”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“After 1940, most of those sterilized were working-class women of color, including Fannie Lou Hamer, who many believe coined the heartbreaking term “Mississippi appendectomy.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“I wonder what those ladies would do if a retard leper Jew walked in the door.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“There were Christian people and there were good people but the two didn’t necessarily always overlap. “Well Garnett sure was awful to Meg. If that’s what you call being a good Christian.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“Hey! Hitch them titties up like I taught you to!” I hitched them as taught, and the ladies drove away.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“stopper,” Flossy whispered to me. When I showed no response, Ruby said, “Salami skin.” Nothing. “Lover cover?” Flossy said. “Throbbin’ hood?” She blinked at me. “Wienerhosen? Cock sock?”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“I noticed that some of the same boys who come in winking and flirting with the girls once the deed was done, sneered coldly at them afterward. This idea that a man would pay a girl for it but then be disgusted for it seemed more degenerate than what we were even running.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“For over half a century, tens of thousands of American women were seized and “forcibly examined,” historian Scott W. Stern writes. “If they misbehaved or if they failed to show ‘proper’ ladylike deference, these women could be beaten, doused with cold water, thrown in solitary confinement—or even sterilized.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“As in crazy? I reckon, but you know, crazy’s relative. That means we all are a little, but we think everybody else is. Like a one-way mirror. But there is actual crazy out there.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“Here is what I have learned in life: You cannot count on people. Look away and poof, they are gone, even if they planned to cut that hair of yours. Or said you were sisters and they would write you a secret letter. Or wanted something better for you than factory work.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“Sometimes I feel old. Old in my skin and my bones. I remember when I turned nine at my mama's house, I could still feel a little eight left in me. But when I turned ten in this place, there was not any nine left to spare. Now I am afraid I might already have used up the rest of my eleven and most of my twelve too.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“How are we so quiet with all this noise inside us?”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“Since I couldn’t keep my mouth shut long enough to be sexy”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“sometimes it is better to ask for the forgiveness than the permission.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“There were Christian people and there were good people but the two didn’t necessarily always overlap.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“Not to make him feel bad, but that sounds pretty late. Even if men are slow learners.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“I’m telling you, the cut’s 50 percent, not a penny more, three dollars a week for board, five for the upfront,”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“The national eugenicist Henry H. Goddard, who first introduced what became the modern IQ test, tested thousands of New York City public schoolchildren for imbecility.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

“They’ll lock the doors and start going through her belongings to either auction off separately or include with the house to raise the value when they have the foreclosure sale.” “You mean—the furniture … and their clothes?”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club