My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.


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And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And s...
KATHRYN STOCKETT
Bosoms are for bedrooms and breastfeeding.
KATHRYN STOCKETT
And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.
KATHRYN STOCKETT
...out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kiss...
KATHRYN STOCKETT
Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the perso...
KATHRYN STOCKETT
We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.
KATHRYN STOCKETT
She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.
KATHRYN STOCKETT
It seems like at some point you'd run out of awful.
KATHRYN STOCKETT
Frying chicken always makes me feel a little better about life.
KATHRYN STOCKETT
That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and...
KATHRYN STOCKETT
Truth.
It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been bu...
KATHRYN STOCKETT
...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?
KATHRYN STOCKETT
It weren’t too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted insi...
KATHRYN STOCKETT
The first time I was ever called ugly, I was thirteen. It was a rich friend of my brother Carlton's ...
KATHRYN STOCKETT
I'd cry, if only I had the time to do it.
KATHRYN STOCKETT
Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.
KATHRYN STOCKETT
That's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.
KATHRYN STOCKETT
I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?
KATHRYN STOCKETT
Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.
KATHRYN STOCKETT
Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.
KATHRYN STOCKETT
All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.
KATHRYN STOCKETT
You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to s...
KATHRYN DAVIS
When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if i...
KATHRYN LASKY
Call it nature or nurture, there are differences in how men and women approach professional conduct,...
KATHRYN MINSHEW
I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.
KATHRYN LASKY
When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.
KATHRYN PRESCOTT
I remember seeing my father only twice as a child for brief visits. As I grew up, I invented a fathe...
KATHRYN HARRISON
Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and ...
KATHRYN MINSHEW
When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was...
KATHRYN HARRISON
Lourdes was a bonfire thousands of candles and burning cries and a week of rising suns over an espla...
KATHRYN HULME
Cause that's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.
KATHRYN STOCKETT
- Um dia, um marciano sábio vem à terra para ensinar umas coisinhas às pessoas - começo.
- ...
KATHRYN STOCKETT
For almost the first year of The Muse's life, I would do 5 to 8 networking events a week. And I ...
KATHRYN MINSHEW
In my lap I had my dear little pug, the smell of whose ears will always be sweeter to me than all th...
KATHRYN DAVIS
To err is to wander and wandering is the way we discover the world and lost in thought it is the als...
KATHRYN SCHULZ
It is disconcerting to me some of the comments that have been made.
KATHRYN BENFIELD
They are really a big boost to our circulation.
KATHRYN BLEHART
Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmeti...
KATHRYN LASKY
The silence stretched out between us as I stared at him, the tears blurring my vision as I waited fo...
KATHRYN MICHAELS
I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and fo...
KATHRYN HARRISON
The dark-veiled silhouette that solitary form patrolling without visible strain or vainglory a demen...
KATHRYN HULME
Never forget that [God] tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.
KATHRYN HULME
Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. 'Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!
KATHRYN LASKY
Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)
KATHRYN LASKY
Make sure you have a signed, detailed contract -- one that details everything the facility might pro...
KATHRYN HORTON
The awesome antiphon swelled in the dark and expanded.
KATHRYN HULME
I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought th...
KATHRYN LASKY
When The Daily Muse initially wanted to launch a job board, our first ideas were insanely (and needl...
KATHRYN MINSHEW
I don't have a type looks-wise, but all my exes have been funny, open-minded and ambitious. I ca...
KATHRYN PRESCOTT
Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and ...
KATHRYN HARRISON
Out of every one hundred Americans, fewer than two get aid from today’s cash welfare program. Just...
KATHRYN EDIN
The only thing a person can never have too much of is common sense.
KATHRYN SMITH
As you move through the application process, keep refining the way you present yourself. Like any sk...
KATHRYN MINSHEW
How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!
KATHRYN HARRISON
I was raised by maternal grandparents who were born in 1890 and 1899, respectively. They were Britis...
KATHRYN HARRISON
He let out a long sorry sigh and I love that look on his face, that disappointment. I understand now...
KATHRYN STOCKETT
We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our chil...
KATHRYN HARRISON
Bib Block was sure that in any part of the country at all, whenever the name of this road was mentio...
KATHRYN KRAMER
The first thing we ask is if they need any hotel rooms -- if it's 10 or more rooms, there are better...
KATHRYN HORTON
Keeping a 'CEO blog' or 'founder's blog' can be a great platform for engaging yo...
KATHRYN MINSHEW
Ultimately, I think it takes a certain grit and determination to constantly re-prove to people that ...
KATHRYN MINSHEW
It's weird, all you think about when you're young is gaining your independence, but when those final...
KATHRYN CRAFT
Everything here at St. Aggie's is upside down and inside out. It's our job not to get moon blinked a...
KATHRYN LASKY
I look into his eyes and jump… off of a high dive plunging deep into the pools of green staring ba...
KATHRYN PEREZ
This new single supply video driver is very highly integrated. The filter removes GSM burst noise wh...
KATHRYN TUCKER