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“I needed to bring my own gifts to my new home, not resist them, not sway to and fro like the tidal waters of the lagoon, but rather chart my own course through the shallows like an experienced boatman.”
― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

“We are the bones of this city, the heart, the womb. The hidden structure and architecture behind the beautiful facades. We are unseen yet leaned upon, vessels yet not empty, the home for our families. The hopes of our city are thrust upon us, and we will be punished if we fail.”
― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

“One year from now, a decade, a century, half a millennium, will things be different? Dare we dream it? When we are seen for ourselves, not just as the conduit of progeny, heirs, lineage, not just as beautiful objects to be protected, inspected, appreciated, but for who we are at the core . . .”
― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

“The evening blessed us with a sunset to rival a painting by Carpaccio in its colours. The sky mutated from shades of ultramarine and azure to vermilion and ochre, then strips of violet and finally indigo.”
― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

“Women in this world are vulnerable; only reputation can keep them from being crushed.”
― Lauren Groff, Matrix

“You've been a naughty kit-kat. Silly bad thing. Dirty raggedy scamp. You'll go straight to hell,' said Rose.
'Yes. You've been bad and whiny. You don't get milk. No milk at all. No milk one bit. No milk for you.,' insisted Pierrot.
''If you cry, I'm going to poke you in the nose.'
'Owww! Owww! Owww! I don't want to hear it.'
You smell bad. You have to scrub your paws. Bath time. Stinky creep.'
'Naughty sinner, naught, naughty, naughty. With mud for paws.'
'Soooo shameful. Look at me. Mister Shameful.'
They had never been taught words of affection. Although the two had only known harsh terms and words of discipline, they had managed to transform them into words of love.”
― Heather O'Neill, The Lonely Hearts Hotel

“Are convents so essential to the constitution of a state? Did Jesus Christ institute monks and nuns? Can the Church really not do without them? What need has the bridegroom of so many foolish virgins, and what need has the human race of so many victims?”
― Denis Diderot, The Nun

“Ladies glisten, men perspire, horses sweat.

-Early Nun Quote, The Old Ursuline Convent (1727)
New Orleans, LA”
― Diana Hollingsworth Gessler, Very New Orleans: A Celebration of History, Culture, and Cajun Country Charm

“And here am I, she thought, fixed in the religious life like a candle on a spike. I consume, I burn away, always lighting the same corner, always beleaguered by the same shadows; and in the end I shall burn out and another candle will be fixed in my stead.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Corner That Held Them

“She said, Then there's the beatings. I can feel them in my bones. I cleared my throat. Beatings for what? She shrugged. You might be made an example of for sleeping in the wrong position, or sneezing at mass. Writing with your left hand, losing a stud off your boot. Having hair that was curly, or red. I reached out to the faint fuzz of amber escaping from her pins. Why on earth鈥� They said it was a mark of badness and hung me up by my bun from a coat hook. I pulled back my hand and put it over my mouth.”
― Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

“I'm Homer Smith."
Mother Maria Marthe formed his name silently with her lips, then uttered it as it translated in her mind: "Homerus Schmidt."
"Oh, ja! Schmidt!"
Broad smiles broke across the faces of the three women. This was something they could understand, a stranger named Schmidt.”
― William Edmund Barrett, The Lilies of the Field

“What kind of fecking nuns are you?"
"Ever seen the Sound of Music?"
"Yes"
"Not that kind”
― Caimh McDonnell, Dead Man's Sins

“I was scarcely the first, nor the only current, girl of impressive derivation to be unceremoniously thrust through the iron gate at the entrance of Le Murate by parents whose aspirations for their daughters did not include marriage. Our paths to the convent were varied, but no matter. We all wound up in the same habit.”
― Kelsey Brickl, Paint

“He was an indecent man, I told myself - prayerfully - and then I prayed for him to become decent.”
― Kelsey Brickl, Paint

“But my mother wanted her children to be educated by nuns and priests all dressed in black, the way it had been done down through the generations with her people. Taught by people who had a firm grasp of how big and awful the world could be.”
― Edward P. Jones, All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories

“How the vulgar loved portents, prodigies and the untoward. Only the religious knew how embarrassing they could be - and quite beside the point.”
― Alice Thomas Ellis, The 27th Kingdom

“Some religious People claim to be Holy and Godly without sin yet no amount of self-justification will work before God because we have all sinned”
― Shaila Touchton

“Her date was wearing a tux when he picked her up and had to live through twenty-six nuns taking photographs of them and watching them pull away in the limo with his friends.”
― Danielle Steel, Coming Out

“You鈥檙e telling me you鈥檙e not worried about your daughter hanging around with six boys with dubious reputations? And dating one of them who looks at your daughter with鈥hat look?鈥�

My brow creased. 鈥淲hat look?鈥�

鈥淥h, please,鈥� Aunt M scoffed. 鈥淭hat look. And not to mention that smile. Hungry,鈥� she growled the word, 鈥渁nd hot enough to make a nun鈥檚 panties spontaneously combust.”
― A. Kirk, Drop Dead Demons

“I think nuns are fun. I had a friend who was at a convent once, and really she said it was wizard and that the nuns were frightfully broadminded and allowed her to make up as much as she wanted to and have masses of boy friends call and take her out, but of course, she was Church of England really.”
― Bruce Marshall, Vespers in Vienna

“They followed her, walking supererogatively on tiptoe, as though afraid to awaken the saints in whom they had never believed.”
― Bruce Marshall, Vespers in Vienna

“Do you know, sometimes when I think of the unhappiness of the world, I wonder if priests and nuns are not greatly responsible for men and women not listening and not obeying more. You see, we have such a very wonderful thing to say and we say it so badly. Shall I tell you a truth? Sometimes when I read holy papers I feel like becoming a little worldly myself, because of the big phrases in which big truths are stated. For big truths are most powerful in little phrases -- but there I go preaching again, and committing the sin of spiritual pride as well, because I don't express our Lord's wisdom very wisely myself.”
― Bruce Marshall, Vespers in Vienna

“The thought had then occurred to her that, as it was no longer easy to be prayerful in a world which had divorced pleasure from God, there was only one solution left and that was to be gay in a convent.”
― Bruce Marshall, Vespers in Vienna

“There is a sublime wholeness in holding one another, fitting into other bodies. We eat the body of Christ. We drink the blood. So many years later, Nina鈥檚 taste still laced my mouth鈥攃hampagne, sweat, graphite licked off a tongue.”
― Margot Douaihy, Scorched Grace

“Nuns, after all, were but women, and they had the amiable vanities of their sex.”
― Eileen Power, Medieval People

“I learned about dogma from experts. I started Catholic school in the first grade and got a heavy dose of it. In fourth grade the nuns used to tell us, 'Some of you will abandon the Church.' I always said, 'No, I never will, not me.' I was fanatically Catholic, praying all the time. My brother was even more fanatical; he used to walk around with pebbles in his shoes.”
― R. Crumb, R. Crumb: Conversations by R. Crumb

“...my father believes when girls get old enough to notice boys, it's good for them to be surrounded by nuns. I'm in either grade. The nuns can't stop me from looking.”
― Kimberly Willis Holt, Keeper of the Night

“...my father believes when girls get old enough to notice boys, it's good for them to be surrounded by nuns. I'm in eighth grade. The nuns can't stop me from looking.”
― Kimberly Willis Holt, Keeper of the Night

“Now as he trudged along the path he could already feel some hideous disease burning his lungs. He won- dered whether, if he died, Sister Godrick would be sorry when she heard. Not a chance. She'd probably cross herself in thanks, and lead the class in hymn. He considered leaving a note, so that when they chipped his body out of the ice the gendarmes would know who to blame. But the police would never dare arrest Sister Godrick, not even for murder. As far as he could tell people didn't do things to nuns. Nuns did things to people”
― David Ball, Empires of Sand by David Ball

“Fell opportunity that has so often turned saints into sinners could have had no place upon the rocky islet in the lake. The voices of the sisters singing in the choir must have been scarce distinguishable from the lapping of the wavelets on the beach, or blending with them, made up a harmony, as if nature and man were joining in a pantheistic hymn. Nuns may have lived upon the Island with, or without vocation, have eaten out their hearts with longing for their lost world, or, like the Saint of Avila, in mystic ecstasy have striven to be one with the celestial spouse. All this may well have been, but the dim sisterhood has left no record of its passage upon earth, except the name Inch Cailleach, beautiful in its liquid likeness to the sound of the murmuring waves, and the wind sighing in the brackens and the bents.”
― R.B. Cunninghame Graham, The Complete Scottish Sketches of R.B. Cunninghame Graham: 'A Careless Enchantment'