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“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 Copy Share Image
“Christian women also, at one time, covered their heads—not just nuns but all women when they entered churches, until quite recently.” — Alaa Alghamdi Copy Share Image
“There is no doubt that, if ever my heart were to call my master Chance by another name, I should make an excellent Catholic.” — Colette Copy Share Image
“She is only a young woman who did not want to become a nun. The world is full of them.” — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
“Her name was Mary, and there ends any resemblance to the mother of our Lord.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I am the sum of all somes, with a few scattered nones and nuns thrown in (though I didn’t throw the nuns in, as… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“In the beginning we all feel a bit like imposters in our capes and veils and being called 'sister'. But don't worry about it… — Mark Salzman Copy Share Image
“It was the small things she took pleasure in. The faint hum of a huge furry bumble bee busily flitting from one flower to… — Kathryn Hughes Copy Share Image
“She pined for Rick and the brief but happy life they had once shared, before his drinking had ruined everything.” — Kathryn Hughes Copy Share Image
“I’m just pulling up these weeds.’ ‘Why?’ She thought about this for a second. ‘Well, they don’t belong here.’ ‘Oh. Where do they belong,… — Kathryn Hughes Copy Share Image
Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It… — Kathryn Hughes Copy Share Image
“The little girl’s eyes were squeezed tightly shut and she bore the angry expression unique to babies who had just been wrenched from the… — Kathryn Hughes Copy Share Image
“but the sudden stark reality that things were never going to be the same again.” — Kathryn Hughes Copy Share Image
Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they… — Kathryn Hughes Copy Share Image
