Kathryn Stockett Quotes

What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate.

Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long, and gives birth to their children.

At the end of the day, no one asks a woman, 'Do you need a neck rub? Do you need a drink, honey?'

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.

Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.

At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.

I hate girls who complain, 'Oh, guys are looking at me!' But I love it when guys check me out. It just feels great.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a 'leisure gap' between them at home. Most women work one shift in the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

Men regarded women as a servant class in the community, and that women were going to remain in the servant class until they lifted themselves out of it.

The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life.... The paramount destiny and mission of women are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator.

Facilities should be separate. When God has drawn a line of distinction, we should not cross it.

Put simply, we must always remember that separate but equal is not equal.