A Quote by Beatrice Wood

I was in a convent for a year.

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Beatrice Wood
American - Artist
March 3, 1893 - March 12, 1998

Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent schools are breeding grounds for great broads and occasionally one-of-the-boys. Convent schools teach you to play against everything, which is what I'm still doing.

Elaine Stritch

I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more than a few weeks, so the family has had to look after her. Believe me, there is nothing so insufferable as a saint, I wouldn't sic one on my worst enemy.

Isabel Allende

Chic is a convent for unloved women.

Anatole Broyard

In convent, I live for 4 months in a broom closet. I do not rot.

Helena

Every year is a new year, and when you look at the turnover year to year, teams that made the playoffs last year aren't a guarantee to make the playoffs this year.

Connor McDavid

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.

William Wordsworth

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

Zeenat Aman

I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.

Marina Warner

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

Ambrose Bierce

When you are Spanish girl, you got to grow up in a convent if you want to get married.

Charo

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

W. Somerset Maugham

From my experience, I will rate Carmel Convent as one of the most prestigious schools in the world.

Poonam Dhillon

The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

My biggest dream was to get out of Michigan - to discover life beyond the Sacred Heart Convent.

Elaine Stritch

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

Carolyn Wheat

I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.

Sharon Horgan

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