"I was in a convent for a year." — Beatrice Wood

"I was in a convent for a year."

— Beatrice Wood

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32 Quotes by Beatrice Wood

Beatrice Wood has 32 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your…
And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and…
Do be true to yourself, whether it's bad doesn't matter. The important thing - you have to copy while you're…
I hang on to the statement of scientists that there is no time. Therefore, join me in telling everyone you…
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

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More Convent Quotes

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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. — Ambrose Bierce
(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have… — Therese of Lisieux
The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial. — Victor Hugo
The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the… — Victor Hugo
That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have… — Lars von Trier
The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw… — Maria Monk
I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular. — Sharon Horgan
A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls… — Vivian Stanshall
The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and… — Elizabeth Prentiss
My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for… — Ibn Arabi
My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God's love I've ever encountered… — Cathleen Falsani

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