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• I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
• Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. — Ambrose Bierce
• I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am… — Madonna Ciccone
• I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says,… — Julie Andrews
• A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them. — William Shakespeare
• It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At… — Bertrand Russell
• I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums. — Brandy Norwood
• Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways. — Christina, Queen of Sweden
• The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street… — Regina Spektor
• Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a… — Guy de Maupassant
• I heard that someone asked Mother Teresa what was most important in her work. I thought she'd say the Rosary but she… — Valerie Harper
• A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man. — H. L. Mencken

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