Failure Quote by S. A. David

“In her view, there were three options for a woman. If you were beautiful, you got married. If you were ugly, you became a…

— Nenia Campbell

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

— Sarah Dunant

“I suppose an unmarried woman just over thirty, who lives alone and has no apparent ties, must expect to find herself involved or interested…

— Barbara Pym

... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.

— Phyllis Bottome

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

— Robert Cormier

“Don't look at me like that. This is a book about a sex scandal: did you really expect me to be a nun and/or…

— Laura Steven

“A woman married. Or she became a nun. Or she died. That was what being a women meant. What then, was she?”

— Katherine Arden

“In my experience, the unmarried women are the smartest.”

— Marius Gabriel

“a woman would have to be a blind lesbian nun to not be affected by him.”

— Carol Maloney Scott

“I'm sympathetic to the nuns' violent impulses. I mean, if I'd given up sex to devote myself to a man who I had to…

— Sarah Silverman

“He's got the kind of body that could turn a nun into a whore.”

— Brooke Moss

“...As marriage was woman's business, unmarried women, though doubtless unfortunate, must simply be considered as business failures: harsh, doubtless, but in tune with the…

— Ruth Brandon