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“She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew she would…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Just when she started to feel she was with a man who could carry his weight, he confessed that he was nuts and had…

— Robyn Carr

“A saint is a human being who neither wants nor needs to hurt you.”

— Judith Fitzgerald

“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

“I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint.”

— Habeeb Akande

“It's easy to become a saint.”

— St. John Bosco

“For in order to really suffer at the hands of a woman one must have believed in her completely.”

— Marcel Proust

“The man who reproaches you is unfair; You're a woman and not a saint.”

— Abbas ibn al-Ahnaf

“Why be a saint unless you could also be a martyr?”

— Louise Penny

“She was a virgin and a warrior, disdainful of the male, which was what eventually convinced people that she really must be off her…

— Émile Zola

“stood a saint with the full cheeks, the firm breasts which swelled out inside her draperies like a cluster of ripe grapes inside a…

— Marcel Proust

“A saint is long past any desire for distinction; he is the only sort of superior man who has never been a superior person.”

— G.K. Chesterton