Convent Quotes

Her first and best friend at the school is an eight-year-old girl, Maureen O`Sullivan who has been transplanted from Ireland. In the bleakness of a convent school, the two girls can recreate in their imaginations the places they have left and places where they would some day like to travel.

That`s the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can`t do, so you don`t have to worry about them.

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I`d think, how awful.

I was in a convent for a year.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one`s soul.