Awful Quote by Dorothy Parker

I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw,…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I attended Catholic school. We received a great education from the nuns. ... Also, guilt. Guilt and a feeling of never being satisfied with…

— George Saunders

By the time I went to the Catholic University of America, which was the time the priests were all leaving with the nuns, the…

— Susan Sarandon

Everyone, from the Mother Superior to the priests to my parents--they were so upset and reproachful...I felt as if something they all passionately believed…

— Philip Pullman

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

— Marina Warner

The daughter of an ordained minister, I had been forced to go to church since I was a toddler. I hated church and resented…

— Lionel Shriver

When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I…

— Fidel Castro

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

— Julianna Baggott

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of…

— Sting

I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.

— John Densmore

The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and…

— Dorianne Laux

When I first started, everything happened at once. I became religious, my musical career took off, I got married, I had kids, and all…

— Matisyahu