Awareness Quote by Tenzin Palmo

It's a funny thing about being raised Catholic and then going to Catholic schools with nuns - the cliche about the mean nun was…

— Ann Dowd

There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life…

— Tenzin Palmo

If nuns begin getting more empowered, where does that leave us?

— Tenzin Palmo

There are a lot of people who had past lives where they were monks and nuns and all their needs were provided for them.…

— Doreen Virtue

I have a great affiliation with the Catholic community having studied at convent schools.

— Zeenat Aman

If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.

— Harvey Milk

Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent schools are…

— Elaine Stritch

I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't…

— Elizabeth Goudge

It didn't seem to have relevance, except in Central America or South America, countries where the church was connected to the fight of the…

— Susan Sarandon

I have to tell you, virtually every country I've gone to, the Catholic church is on the cutting edge of social change. Really extraordinary.

— Kerry Kennedy

The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers.

— Janine di Giovanni