Amianne Bailey

“...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

“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

“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

“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