Being Quote by Ann Dowd

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

I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.

— Sofia Vergara

I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun. I saw…

— Madonna Ciccone

Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers.

— Janine di Giovanni

I’ve been a nun. A Catholic nun.

— JWoww

I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.

— John Lydon

I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.

— Moby

I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.

— Marina Warner

If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.

— Harvey Milk

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be…

— George A. Romero

Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school.

— Ann Hood

People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the…

— Gloria Steinem