I’m sorry you had to hear that. Said I stole a candelabra. I don't think God has color in mind when he sets a tornado loose. And now she know what I done.Aibileen Clark: Minny!Minny Jackson: She got what she deserved, Aibileen! (On the phone with Ms. Elaine Stain from New York City) I'd like to write somethin' the the help. It's hard to do, but it can start by tellin' the truth. And read these letters and you answer them just like she would. Baby girl still got to wear diaper when she sleep at night and don’t get changed till I get there in the morning. They all too scared! I’ve never met a woman who says exactly what she’s thinking.Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: Well, I got plenty to say.Stuart Whitworth: Yeah, I bet you do. Drove to the colored hospital. You hear me? [Skeeter laughs]Charlotte Phelan: I have never been more proud of you.Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: Thank you. What your hands can’t touch. [laughing as Hilly runs out of the dining room to throw up the pie Minny had put shit in]Mrs. Walters: You didn’t just eat one, you had two slices! That's why I've drafted the Home Health Sanitation Initiative. â?? Period drama written and directed by Tate Taylor adapted from Kathryn Stockett’s novel of the same name. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.”, “That's the way prayer do. And I know the doctor says it’s some kind of last strength nonsense, but I have decided not to die.Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: Oh, mama.Charlotte Phelan: It’s too late. [she turns and leaves Aibileen’s house banging the door shut]Aibileen Clark: And that’s a good mood! I couldn’t get two people over here if I begged. I need to tell you all about the terrible awful I’d done to Miss Hilly. People move on Skeeter. You got a job here for the rest of your life. I done ask God to forgive me. And we just love not making minimum wage or getting social security. I bet that whole thing was made up by some nigra. Aibileen Clark: [to Mae] You is kind. I wasn’t on planning on telling her, Aibileen! I know how to get them babies asleeps, start crying and going to toilet bowl before their mamma’s even get out of bed in the morning. Walters: You go on ahead and use the inside bath, Minny. A disease-preventative bill that requires every white home to have a separated bathroom for the colored help. A disease-preventative bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the colored help. Maybe it’s going to be me. Some things you just got to keep to ourselves, right?Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: All the boys say I’m ugly. So don't walk your white butt to New York, run it!. I’d give it right back to him. [after she stumbles upon Skeeter at Aibileen’s house]Minny Jackson: And just what makes you think colored people need your help? You’re a selfish woman, Skeeter.Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: Stuart!Stuart Whitworth: I think you’re better off being alone. In an attempt to become a legitimate journalist and writer, Skeeter decides to write a book from the point of view of black domestic workers who have spent their lives taking care of prominent white families, exposing the racism they are faced with. It’s hard to do. I've never met a woman that says exactly what she's thinking. Celia Foote: Hilly, I got pregnant after you and Johnny broke up!Mrs. [Yule Mae takes the breakfast dishes and turns to leave]Hilly Holbrook: As a Christian, I’m doing you a favor. That's why I'vr drafted the Home Health Sanitation Initiative. From what Yule Mae says, there's a lot a time to write letters in jail. [Skeeter has a flash back memory of Constantine]Constantine Jefferson: Everyday, everyday you’re not dead in the ground and you wake up in the morning, you going to have to make some decisions. Any person printing, publishing or circulating written matter urging for public acceptance or social equality between whites and N*gro’s is subject to imprisonment. get another man in this town. Courage is daring to do what is right, in spite of the weakness of our flesh.' Now, my health’s been on the uptake these past few weeks. It's quite scandalous. Ain't no different in writin' down my prayers. No husband wants to come home and see that.Hilly Holbrook: Oh, I didn’t have time to get fixed up.Charlotte Phelan: You know, Hilly? What are you and that nigra up to? [Skeeter flips through the signed pages of the book]Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: That’s beautiful.Aibileen Clark: What’s wrong?Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: I got a job offer from Harper & Row in New York.Aibileen Clark: Congratulations!Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: I’m not taking it.Aibileen Clark: What you mean, you’re not taking it?Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: I can’t just leave you two here when things are getting bad from the mess that I created.Aibileen Clark: Oh, bad things happen, there ain’t nothing you can do about it. But you, you going to do something big with yours. Minnie, Minnie. Mama was third runner up in Miss South Carolina and I just…Constantine Jefferson: Oh, you quit feeling sorry for yourself. [to Minny as she’s tending to Minny’s wound from being hit by her husband]Celia Foote: You know what I’d do if I were you? Plenty of time to write the truth about you. What are you and that nigra up to? You know who Miss Myrna is?Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: I read her articles all the time.Mr. Ten white and eight black. How many more?Elain Stein: I don’t know! You are fired Minny Jackson! Would you like to come out to dinner with me? Now, you get your raggedy ass off my porch. You can write my obituary! [Minny returns to Aibileen’s house]Minny Jackson: Alright, I’m going to do it. Do you, uh, find men attractive? Best part of a person’s life. Plenty of time to write the truth about you. You said to write about what disturbs me, particularly if it bothers no one else. That my own daughter put me in a nursing home and that she ate Minny's shit. Aibileen Clark: [voice over] Once Mrs. Walters arteries went hard, Miss Hilly moved her into her house and fired the maid she had to make room for Minny too. I don’t want to leave you. Ain’t going to be no beauty queen either. Mmm, I learned me something frying chicken. They like big fat ladies too, that I know. Hilly Holbrook: Skeeter, did you intentionally not put my initiative in the newsletter?Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: No. Miss Phelan, it’s a cleaning advice column. When he got there, she’d died. She would have written and told me. You need to come up with this money on your own. [they hug each other]. Mrs. Walters always said, Miss Hilly still sweet on Mr. Johnny too.Celia Foote: No wonder! Starring: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Ahna O’Reilly, Allison Janney, Anna Camp, Eleanor Henry, Emma Henry, Chris Lowell, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel, Sissy Spacek, Brian Kerwin, Wes Chatham, Aunjanue Ellis. God says we need to love our enemies. Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: I got a job today. You must be so worried about your mother, but, um, I’m worried about you. With them it’s all about money. Can we move on to the next question?Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: You know, Aibileen, you don’t have to call me ma’am. Miss Leefolt got so much hairspray on her head she gonna blow us all up if she light a cigarette. I could actually listen to you this time.Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: I can’t think of anything worse.Stuart Whitworth: Well, I understand and I’m sorry. Courage sometimes skips a generation. Oh, but I got her back.Aibileen Clark: What you did?Minny Jackson: I can’t tell you. And don’t hit on their children. [after Kennedy’s assassination]Aibileen Clark: The world done gone crazy, Miss Skeeter, and I’m scared. Babies are like fattie. I’m going to take care of Aibileen and she going to take care of me.Aibileen Clark: Go find your life, Miss Skeeter. [shouts] Hilly, I got pregnant after you and Johnny broke up! I don’t mean to rub salt in your wound, but you ain’t got a good life here in Jackson, plus your mama’s getting better.Minny Jackson: You ain’t got nothing left here but enemies in the junior league. Here’s my phone number. Dumped him there and honked the horn. Now, she gone to putting pencil marks on my toilet paper. Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan Quotes in The Help The The Help quotes below are all either spoken by Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan or refer to Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan. And the paper’s free.Hilly Holbrook: Nobody will believe what you write!Aibileen Clark: I don’t know! Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: Daddy, what happened to Constantine?Robert Phelan: Uh, well, Constantine went to live in Chicago with her family. [looking at the picture of Aibileen’s son on the wall]Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: Is that your son?Aibileen Clark: Yes, ma’am. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. I've never met a woman that says exactly what she's thinkin'. If I didn’t know any better, now I’d say you’d been eating too much pie.Hilly Holbrook: Mrs. Phelan, I came here…Charlotte Phelan: In fact, I’m sure of it. - Aibileen Clark (The Help), The Binge Best Movie Quotes – ‘Tonight, we become legends.’, Powerful Quotes from The Terminator Movies – ‘I’ll be back.’, Best Quotes from Netflix’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Movies Series. If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.”, “She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.”, “Mississippi is like my mother. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?”, “I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.”, “All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.”, “Wasn't that the point of the book? [to Celia as she’s showing her how to fry chicken]Minny Jackson: Frying chicken just tend to make you feel better about life. [reading one the letters to Aibileen]Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: Dear Miss Myrna, when I’m chopping onions how do I keep tears out of my eyes?Aibileen Clark: Shoot! Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: We need a dozen more.Minny Jackson: Me and Aibileen done asked everybody we know. Eight black and ten white. [Sugar looks away and Minny pulls her face towards her again]Minny Jackson: No sass mouthing. Always thought it was going to be him. Other than that we’re done.Minny Jackson: Which one you got left?Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: Uh, mine. I was engaged last year. And after my prayers last night, I got some stories down too.Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: Go ahead. [Minny looks at her pie as if to confirm Hilly had eaten the pie which had her shit in it]. What are you and that N*gro up to?Celia Foote: I don’t know what you’re talking about! [Skeeter comes over to help him grab the basket full of letters]Mr. Blackly: Miss Myrna has gone shit house crazy on us. I wanted to say thank you.Minny Jackson: So, I ain’t losing my job?Johnny Foote: No. He’s a drunken asshole.Charlotte Phelan: Love and hate are two horns on the same goat, Eugenia. They don't like you because they think that you white trash. And the paper is free. But it can start by telling the truth. (Sees Skeeter talking on the phone with Ms. Elaine Stain from New York City as she opens the door) Skeeter, who are you talkin' to in there. [after Hilly has accused Aibileen of stealing silver from Elizabeth]Aibileen Clark: I didn’t steal no silver.Hilly Holbrook: Maybe I can’t send you to jail for what you wrote. [after she’s miscarried]Celia Foote: We got married cause I was pregnant. [to Yule Mae]Hilly Holbrook: Did you also ask Miss Skeeter if you could borrow money?Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: Of course not. [Aibileen just looks at Skeeter]Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: I’ve never seen you out of uniform before. Walters: Well, let’s put my coat on then! Cause nobody else in town is as tacky as you.Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: You don’t know anything, Hilly.Hilly Holbrook: Oh, I don’t! And my car’s here, I could just take you home.Aibileen Clark: No, ma’am. The Biz could use a little rattler.Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: Thank you, Miss Stein!Elain Stein: Hey, hey, hey! Nice to have your own. Love and hate are two horns on the same goat, Eugenia. But to you all it’s just another day of bridge. It’s just plain dangerous. Charlotte Phelan: Hilly, you’re, you’re a sweaty mess! A quote can be a single line from one character or a memorable dialog between several characters. Don’t give yourself away now. Gain some experience and please apply again.”Mr. [everyone at the table goes quiet and Skeeter turns to her mother]Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: Did you fire her?Charlotte Phelan: We were just a job to her, honey. I don’t see why not. Then one time I told him it’s cause I drank too much coffee. I told God I’d never speak of it again, but we ain’t got no choice. Ain't he wondering how the cooking's so good? Okay? She can go on up and get an umbrella from the study.Mrs. The Help Movie Quotes – ‘Looking after white babies, that’s what I do. See what happens. [as Mrs. Walters comes over to cut herself a slice of the pie]Minny Jackson: No! Or were you just born stupid? Would it kill you to go on a date? Uh-huh! If chocolate was a sound, it would've been Constantine's voice singing. Spoon too. "Charlotte Phelan, dead. Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: We never finished our conversation at Elizabeth’s, about that book I want to write. Aibileen Clark: Lord, look at all these pages. Just write them down and invent them maids yourself. [pushes the pie in towards Minny]Hilly Holbrook: Cut her one! From what Yule Mae says, there's a lot of time to write letters in jail. (pushes Hilly off the front porch as she's talking to her) Now, you get your raggedy ass my porch. That's why I've drafted the Home Help Sanitation Initiative. She going to go to her grave convincing folks this book ain’t about Jackson. Everybody know that. Once I told the truth about that, I felt free.' Hilly, I wish you'd just go use the bathroom. YOU ARE FIRED!. For women to realize, We are just two people. Uh, let’s begin with, uh, with where you were born.Minny Jackson: Belzoni Mississippi, on my great aunt’s sofa. Isn’t it, Aibileen?Aibileen Clark: Yes, ma’am. Professional husband hunting. But there's two things I can't seem to forget. No. Okay? Charlotte Phelan: Eugenia!Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan: Unless of course you do! Professional husband huntin'. 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