Kathryn Stockett

And it just shocked me.

It was essentially a means to cleanse society of those that people saw as undesirable.

And so while I was doing the research, after about five years of kind of writing disappointing drafts for myself,

I don't know.

I found out about this movement in American history, and I worked it into the story.

And I think that that is really after 12 years when the story started to blossom.

Well, when I first started the book, I don't think women's bodies were quite under siege the way that they are now.

In America, women are losing their health rights.

And it's just shocking.

And I'm not saying that we've gone back to 1933.

But right now, I would say that the car is headed in the wrong direction.

And I don't want women to take that for granted.

You know, it's no joke when we say that history repeats itself.

So we got to hold on to the rights that we do have.

That's so funny.

I was thinking the same thing as I was writing it so often.

And that was such a touching book.

You know, it's complicated.

It is.

Even I can look at it and say, oh, that is complicated to be a white woman from Mississippi writing in the voices of black women.