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"[to Eugenia] Mrs. Leefolt should not be having babies. Write that down."
"[repeated line, to Mae Mobley] You is kind. You is smart. You is important."
"[to Eugenia] Love and hate are two horns on the same goat, Eugenia. And you need a goat."
"[to Eugenia] Your eggs are dying. Would it kill you to go on a date?"
"[to Eugenia] Courage sometimes skips a generation. Thank you for bringing it back to our family."
"[to Eugenia] Every day you're not dead in the ground, when you wake up in the morning, you're gonna have to make some decisions. Got to ask yourself this question: "Am I gonna believe all them bad things them fools say about me today?" You hear me today? "Am I gonna believe all them bad things them fools say about me today? You hear me today?" All right? As for your mama, she didn't pick her life. It picked her. But you, you're gonna do something big with yours. You wait and see."
"[to Stuart] I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant, or were you just born stupid?"
"[hysterical] It's Skeeter! She put it in the newsletter. I specifically said, "Drop old coats at my house," not commodes!!! Why would she do this to me?"
"If you can love your enemy, you already have a victory."
"[to Eugenia] Isn't that what all you girls from Ole Miss major in - professional husband hunting?"
"Frying chicken just tend to make you feel better about life."
"[to Eugenia] You ain't got nothing left here but enemies in the Junior League. You done burned every bridge there is. And you ain't never gonna get another man in this town, everybody know that. So don't walk your white butt to New York, run it!"
"[to Hilly] Eat my shit."
"I may have trouble remembering my own name, or what country I live in, but there are two things I can't seem to forget: that my own daughter threw me into a nursing home, and that she ate Minny's shit."
"[when Hilly realizes what was in Minny's pie and runs off, gagging] And you didn't have just ONE, you had TWO slices!!! [begins laughing hysterically, as Minny flees] RUN, MINNY, RUN!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
"Emma Stone as Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan"
"Lila Rogers as Young Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan"
"Viola Davis as Aibileen Clark"
"Bryce Dallas Howard as Hilly Holbrook"
"Octavia Spencer as Minny Jackson"
"Jessica Chastain as Celia Foote"
"Ahna O'Reilly as Elizabeth Leefolt"
"Allison Janney as Charlotte Phelan"
"Anna Camp as Jolene French"
"Chris Lowell as Stuart Whitworth"
"Cicely Tyson as Constantine Bates"
"Emma Henry/Eleanor Henry as Mae Mobley Leefolt"
"Mike Vogel as Johnny Foote"
"Sissy Spacek as Mrs. Walters"
"Brian Kerwin as Robert Phelan"
"Aunjanue Ellis as Yule May Davis"
"Joshua A. Downes as Mr. Blackly"
"Mary Steenburgen as Elaine Stein"
"Nelsan Ellis as Henry"
"David Oyelowo as Preacher Green"
"Dana Ivey as Grace Higginbotham"
"Ashley Johnson as Mary Beth Cadwell"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.