The Help Flashcards by Antonia Cook

A bitter seed was planted inside a me

Abileen 1:3

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Everybody knows they carry different diseases than we do

Hilly 1:8

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She telling everybody in town I’m stealing! That’s why I can’t get no work! That witch done turned me into the Smart Mouthed Criminal Maid

Minny 2:21

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Miss Skeeter asking don’t I want to change things, like chabging Jackson, Missisippi gone be like changing a lightbulb

Abileen 2:24

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the fool doesn’t have any shoes on, like some kind of white trash. Nice white ladies don’t go around barefoot

Minny 3:31

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when you gone have you some chilluns, start filling up all these beds?

Minny 3:33

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like the shake n’ bake commercials on the tee-vee?

Celia 3:44

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Or at least I cook and Miss Celia fidgets, looking more like a five-year-old than the rich lady paying my rent

Minny 4:48

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Miss Celia won’t leave the house except to get her hair frosted and her ends trimmed

4:48

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Don’t do it good. Leave some smudges

4:49

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It’s like an itch. Everyday, it itches a little worse.

Minny 4:50

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Four years my daughter goes off to college and what does she come home with? A pretty piece of paper

Charlotte 5:55

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Why, every week I see another man in town over six feet and I think, if Eugenia would just try

Charlotte 5:55

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“Be nice to the little colored girls when you’re doen there”…but Mother never explained

Charlotte 5:62

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You gone have to ask yourself, Am I gone believe what them fools said about me today?

Constantine 5:63

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It was having someone… whose eyes simply said, without words, ‘You are fine with me’.

Skeeter (Constantine) 5:65

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All my close friends had dropped out to get married.

Skeeter 5:68

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And it was like she was delivering the weather, Mother said “Constantine is no longer employed here.”

Skeeter 5:68

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“You cannot leave a Negro and Niagra together unchaperoned”

Skeeter (Mother’s words) 6:70

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“When you’re not…fixing your boss’s coffe, look around, investigate, and write”

Elaine Stein (letter) 6:71

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Are you…do you…find men attractive?

Charlotte 6:75

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Lady, you didn’t raise your child at all

Abileen (Elizabeth) 7:95

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Did you hear about the colored boy this morning? One they beat with a tire for accidently using the white bathroom?

Abileen 7:103

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I thought it would be like viditing Constantine, where friendly colored people waved and smiled, happy to see the little white girl whose daddy owned the big farm

Skeeter 8:104

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Please, Miss Skeeter. Miss Leefolt have a fit if she find you giving me cash

Abileen 8:108

How do you like your new bathroom out there? It’s nice to have a place of your own

Hilly 8:111

out of breath and sweaty and windblown

Skeeter (pre-Stuart’s date) 9:116

drop-dead drunk

Skeeter (Stuart) 9:119

I’ve served enough bridge club luncheons to know something about every white woman in this town.

Minny 10:126

We’re prime members and we deserve a prime spot

Minny (church) 10:126

even on a day off, I can’t escape the fear of that man.

Minny 10:133

If the truth gets out on me, I’m done

Minny 10:141

I keep walking, feeling as obvious as my vehicle: large and white.

Skeeter 11:143

I’ve never sat ar the same table as a Negro who wasn’t paid to do so.

11:143

It feel...

Abileen 11:145

You don’t know the Terrible Awful Thing I did

Minny 2:27

*you better tell them he your high yellow cause that colored doctor won’t operate on a white boy in a Negro hospital.*

Abileen 11:151

I’ve got a total of twelve words. And four of them are *yes ma’am* and *no ma’am*

Skeeter 11:146

Shame ain’t black, like dirt...the color of a new white uniform.

Abileen 11:151

You know colored folk ain’t allowed in that library. There was a sit-in...turned the German Shepard’s loose.

Skeeter 12:154

What if Elizabeth or Hilly catches us at what we’re doing? What if Abileen gets fired, sent to jail?

Skeeter 12:156

I’ve had nothing to eat today except Mother’s sexual-correction tea.

Skeeter 12:156

White’s can become prrmanently disabled by nearly all of these diseases as we lack immunities coloreds carry in their darker pigmentation.

Hilly (Help Sanitation Initiative) 12:158

Why you even care about this? You *white*.

Minny 12:164

I’ve never met anyone who says exactly what they were thinking. Not a woman, anyway.

Stuart (Skeeter) 13:169

Inside, some one has written NIGGER BOOK in purple crayon. I am not as dosturbed by the words as by the fact that the handwriting looks like a third grader’s.

Skeeter 13:172

Try not to notice how when a regular girl gets asked out, it’s information, but when Skeeter Phelan gets asked out, it’s *news*.

Skeeter 13:175

I been in some tense situations, but to have Minny on one side a my living room and Miss Skeeter on the other

Abileen 14:182

Women’s, they aint like men. A woman ain’t gone beat you with a stick...the white lady don’t *ever* forget.

Abileen 14:188

Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don’t know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly

Abileen 14:192

Look, I found that *paraphernalia* of yours

Hilly (Skeeter’s miscellaneous articles) 15:205

Miss Skeeter can’t do the front sell. She’d scare them off before she even opened her mouth.

Abileen 16:208

I think if God had intended for white people and colored people to be this close together for so much of the day, he would have made us colorblind.

Minny 17:215

I nursed a worthlesspint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I’d never marry one. And then I did.

Minny 17:222

I pray to God I can get my job back on Monday.

Minny 17:228

I don’t think this would qualify as looking after if she’s drunk in the bathtub.

Minny (Celia) 18:231

Will *you* fish my dead baby out of that toilet bowl.

Minny (Celia’s change of character) 18:233

He’s gone forget these babies cause mens is real good at that.

Minny 18:235

They’d held on to their virginity with the fierceness of children refusing to share their toys. And yet, I consider it.

Skeeter 19:240

this the first time I’ve ever thanked her sincerely

Skeeter (Abileen) 19:245

it’s not line [smoking] going to kill me

Skeeter 19:248

Being white, I feel it’s my duty to help them

Skeeter 19:254

My nervousness rises like a trill in my throat as I realise, *she knows*.

Skeeter 20:263

I’m starting to realise that I don’t know Stuart

Skeeter 20:271

I let their colored memories draw me out of my own miserable life.

Skeeter 21:276

I no longer feel protected because I am white

Skeeter 21:278

I will *not* that initiative.

Skeeter 21:279

I wait for her to catch the itony of this, that she’ll send money to colored people overseas but not across town.

Skeeter 21:280

I reckon her mean old mama never get her what she wanted when she was little

Abileen (Elizabeth’s mum) 21:283

Do you have some babies?

Mae 21:284

His daddy would take him to the garage and whip him with a rubber hose pipe to beat the girl out of that boy

Abileen (gay kid she cared for) 21:285

*When I find her I will kill her myself*.

Hilly (Skeeter putting toilets in initiative) 22:287

It ain’t the color of the wrapping that count, it’s what we is inside.

Abileen (Mae) 23:296

Hearing your maid’s a thief is like hearing your teacher’s a twiddler

Minny 24:301

It’s not like the old days when she was pregnant. Now she can’t wait to get out of the door.

Minny (Celia) 24:301

this time he was beating me stone-cold sober...for the pure pleasure of it

Minny 24:304

I see the white-trash girl she was ten years ago. She was strong. She didn’t take no shit from nobody.

Minny 24:309

Everything about her oozes sex, sex and more sex.

Minny (Celia) 24:318

the only genuine parts of Hilly you can see are her fingers and her face

Stockett 25:321

real skin, real cleavage, perhaps not-so-real blonde hair

Stockett (Celia) 25:321

He should’ve married...*Hilly*.

Celia 26:336

The way Hilly looked at me...like I was *nothing*. Like I was trash on the side of the road

26:336

*For Two-Slice Hilly*

26:341

People tend to treat you a little differently than before

Skeeter 27:345

I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.

Skeeter 27:345

I am loving him, yet hating him at the same time.

Skeeter 27:354

Sorry is the fool who underestimates my mother.

Skeeter 27:357

They say it’s like true love, good help. You only get one in a lifetime.

Charlotte (apology to Skeeter for Constantine) 28:372

skeleton in a white dressing gown with absurdly fancy ribbons and starched face

Skeeter (Charlotte) 28:374

I have decided not to die

Charlotte 28:384

Wearing nothing but they personalities, but Miss Leefolt don’t do like that.

29:388

Miss Taylor says kids that are coloured can’t go to my school cause they’re not smart enough. You’re rughter than Miss Taylor.

29:392

Miss Hilly called him a dn told him I was a thief. He found out about the pie. He knows about the book.

Minny 30:404

Usually, he doesn’t touch me when I’m pregnant.

Minny 30:406

I bet we even know some of these Niagra maids.

Hilly 31:408

That means Miss Leefolt just read her part and kept on going.

Abileen 31:408

My baby white girl gone colored herself black.

Abileen 31:409

How can I love a man who beats me raw? Why do I love a fool drinker?

Minny 32:413

They think big strong Minny, she sure can stand up for herself. But they don’t know what a pathetic mess I turn into when Leroy’s beating on me

Minny 32:413

I have nothing left here, no friends, no job I really care about, no stuart

Skeeter 33:415

Who is thirty-five and beautiful and clearly homosexual

Skeeter (third-cousin) 33:415

That was not me WHO ATE THAT PIE!

Hilly 33:423

Minny made us put the pie in the story to protect us. You are a beautiful person Minny.

Abileen 34:429

Go to New York...Go find your life.

Abileen (Skeeter) 34:435

You is kind...you is smart. You is important.

Abileen 34:443