Viola Davis credited as playing...
Aibileen Clark
- Hilly Holbrook: Maybe I can't send you to jail for what you wrote, but I can send you for being a thief.
- Aibileen Clark: I know something about you. Don't you forget that. From what Yule Mae says, there's a lot of time to write letters in jail. Plenty of time to write the truth about you. And the paper is free.
- Hilly Holbrook: Nobody will believe what you wrote!
- Aibileen Clark: I don't know. I been told I'm a pretty good writer, already sold a lot of books!
- [last lines]
- Aibileen Clark: In just 10 minutes, the only life I knew was done.
- Mae Mobley: [calling after her through the window] A-a-a-aibee!
- Aibileen Clark: God says we need to love our enemies. It hard to do. But it can start by telling the truth. No one had ever asked me what it feel like to be me. Once I told the truth about that, I felt free. And I got to thinking about all the people I know. And the things I seen and done. My boy Treelore always said we gonna have a writer in the family one day. I guess it's gonna be me.
- Aibileen Clark: 18 people were killed in Jackson that night. 10 white and 8 black. I don't think God has color in mind when he sets a tornado loose.
- [first lines]
- Aibileen Clark: I was born 1911, Chicksaw County, Piedmont Plantation.
- Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: And did you know as a girl growing up that one day you'd be a maid?
- Aibileen Clark: Yes ma'am, I did.
- Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: And you knew that because...
- Aibileen Clark: My mama was a maid. My grandmama was a house slave.
- Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: [whispering as she writes down] "house slave..." Did you ever dream of being something else?
- Aibileen Clark: [nods yes]
- Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: What does it feel like to raise a white child when your own child's at home being looked after by somebody else?
- Aibileen Clark: Miss Leefolt got so much hairspray on her head, she gonna blow us all up if she light a cigarette.