I went to Catholic school and experienced racism firsthand from nuns and priests. — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
“It is hardly lonely in a nunnery, son, with other women. And God is there." Morgause said, "I would rather dwell in… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
“He was an indecent man, I told myself - prayerfully - and then I prayed for him to become decent.” — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was… — C. C. H. Pounder Copy Share Image
My mom dragged me by my ear to Catholic school because I was a cutup and thought I needed to see the… — Ed Henry Copy Share Image
I'd go grocery-shopping with my parents and the old-school nuns would be there collecting money. It freaked me out. — Steve Harwell Copy Share Image
I went to an all-girls' Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, 'Mum,… — Freida Pinto Copy Share Image
“Are you okay?" asked Finisterre. "Annoyed," I said, giving him my hand so he could heave me to my feet. "Yes, I… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“At the Serima Mission, in Victoria Province, I am shown around by an enchantingly pretty African nun called Sister Balbina...She cannot be… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to guess where one would… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
'Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns thoroughly exposed, and I… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
“Moving the kids was not a good idea, but I sure wanted to see nuns in monster trucks plowing their way through… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Monica Besra, a Bengali woman from a remote Indian village, was reportedly suffering from a malignant ovarian tumor when she went, in… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the… — Joel Robuchon Copy Share Image
“I was scarcely the first, nor the only current, girl of impressive derivation to be unceremoniously thrust through the iron gate at… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“At St. Bernardine’s the nuns never liked me. Especially Sister Mary Bitch-and-a-Half. I think that was her biblical name.” — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
It's an oversimplication to say that more monks and nuns are the answer to the Joel Osteen-ification of Christianity... but it wouldn't… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
