Word: maids
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Once when I was in a salon in Nigeria, I witnessed a lady beating up a little girl who was her maid and only nine years old. This shocked me, and I didn’t know how to respond. Then she came in with a DVD titled ‘Jennifer’ and went from beating her maid to hugging her in a matter of minutes. This scene made me incredibly interested is this culture of maid-servant relationships,” Johnson recalls...
...brave to be vulnerable again. It gives the world, and me, so much hope." - Annelise Peterson, the maid of honor at Uchitel's 2004 wedding (New York Times...
...didn't have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed. I was really homesick - I couldn't even call my family and tell them I was fine. So I started writing in the voice of Demetrie, the maid I had growing up. She later became the character of Aibileen [in The Help]. I sent the story to my mother and she was sort of like, "Hmm, that's good." As I wrote, I found that Aibileen had some things to say that really weren't in her character...
...many cases, these women worked for the same white family for generation after generation. That, to me, is the difference between an employee and someone you feel close to. They're an important cog in the wheel of your family. Some readers tell me, "We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family." You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that. You look at all these rules in place in the '60s - the separate bathroom, the separate plate and cup. That's not how you treat a member...
...talk to any African-American women who lived through that time period? I did get to interview a white woman and her maid who were together in the 1960s. It was so interesting to compare their perspectives. The white woman's strongest memory of her maid was of the delicious pralines she made. When I went to speak to the maid, she [remembered] working for this woman when [civil rights activist] Medgar Evers had just been assassinated. Her children were walking down the street in a protest and she was so afraid her employer would turn...