Cells Quote by William Wordsworth

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room;

— William Wordsworth

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn.

— Meg Tilly

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

Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living.

— Garrison Keillor

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

— Tenzin Palmo

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

— Ambrose Bierce

The new nuns don't know that they're 'supposed' to be meek and submissive, and so in many ways they believe they can do anything,…

— 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

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

Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life.

— Tenzin Palmo

A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER

— Darynda Jones

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

— Phyllis Bottome