Catholic Quote by Katherine Cavarly Hulme

“Who knows what light housework means? One nun’s light could be another nun’s penal servitude.”

— Maeve Binchy

“The habits of Franciscan nuns still shrouded all but their faces, and so each of the new nun's features were emphasized, read forty times…

— Louise Erdrich

“how from time to time some young and beautiful nun had suddenly disappeared, to the surprise and alarm of her companions; how piercing shrieks…

— George W.M. Reynolds

“As far as she could see, the nuns must be full of impure thoughts or else they wouldn’t be so sure everyone else had…

— Nora Roberts

“These were the mysteries of men, so baffling to women. Where silences could become a conjoining of paths. Where a handful of inconsequential words…

— Steven Erikson

“On the black cotton was printed a white skull and crossbones - the skull head grinning as if he were mocking her. The nun…

— Victoria Dougherty

“Like the teachers at the Duke's estate, the priest thought he knew the girl and what she was capable of. He was wrong. He…

— Leigh Bardugo

“It was her work of art, her poem and her prayer, to repeat this story, low and precipitately, as if she were in the…

— Henri Barbusse

“our mother recalled it. But the nun’s language in these matters—matters of the body, of the flesh, what went on between women and men—”

— Alice McDermott

“I wonder if it's a special sin to lie to a nun”

— Robert Cormier

“She is only a young woman who did not want to become a nun. The world is full of them.”

— Sarah Dunant

“Angie gave me the glare -- the one that promised retribution, lameness, death, and worst of all, withholding of sexual favors, all with one…

— Giacomo Giammatteo