"a story of female grit and solidarity - of strength through sisterhood"

"A Southern-born white author who renders black voices in a thick, dated dialect"

"[Stockett's] ignorance of the real lives of Black women"

"White voices in the US continually tell the story of the Civil Rights Movement from a limited point of view"

"overdraws it's rights to our sympathy"

"The rage such women would surely feel for the injustices they endure is tamped down until they become unconvincing stereotypes"

"These white writers' rendering of black dialects quite literally inscribes difference"