Children Quote by Maria Monk

People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the…

— Gloria Steinem

We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in…

— Maria Monk

Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as…

— Tom Brokaw

To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions had been…

— Simon Hoggart

I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?

— Janet Fitch

“It is hard to bring paedophile rings to justice. Thankfully it does happen. Perhaps the most horrific recent case came before the High Court…

— Alice Jamieson

How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the…

— Harry Houdini

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

— Victor Hugo

It's been tested by research, that he who fucks nun will later join the church.

— The Clash

My sense, and I'm sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the political prisoners…

— Adam Braver

I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It…

— Maria Monk

“The trial wasn’t the finest hour of American justice as the treatment of the prisoners seemed medieval in its barbarism. Almost all of the…

— Ron Chernow