Kathryn Stockett

I want the reader to feel motivated to protect women's rights.

We can't afford to lose any more ground than we already have.

Well, no, but I did know that these, you know, absurdities existed and...

I, you know, I made a choice.

I said, I can try to stretch that point out for 600 pages or on the very first page, I can stick it in a sign on the wall.

And let the reader know what they're in for.

You know, I think a lot of women are afraid to make a mistake.

And it's a good question because I think that that's...

One of the reasons why it took me 17 years to write a second book, we tend to overcompensate.

We overthink it when the truth is sometimes just making a decision is just as good as making the perfectly exact right decision.

Part of this is because, you know, women haven't had the rights that we do and the rights that we deserve for that long.

And so we're afraid to make mistakes.

We might lose it.

And I just want to tell women that it's okay to make a mistake.

That's how we learn.

That she's still full of wonder and that she has hope.

She doesn't lose hope through the whole book.

And hope is so powerful.

Yeah.

But it was a profitable one.