A Quote by Phyllis Bottome

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

Phyllis Bottome

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Phyllis Bottome
British - Novelist
May 31, 1884 - August 22, 1963

For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.

Kate Micucci

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

Madonna Ciccone

I’ve been a nun. A Catholic nun.

JWoww

A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.

Louis L'Amour

I never knew what it was to crave a woman’s touch. Or to hunger for a woman’s kiss.” “And now you do?” she asked hesitantly. “Since I met you, Corinne Bishop, I’ve been thinking of little else.

Tina St. John

I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and I use a fork.

Helene Hanff

I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.

Gabrielle Reece

A woman could be having fun A woman could be like a nun In order to survive We cannot be kind Until we are hurt

Ayumi Hamasaki

There's never been anything funny about a woman dying for love.

Richard Yates

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

James M. Barrie

I have only been acting since I was about eighteen. I couldn't imagine doing anything else. I don't think there is anything else I could do.

Ruby Bentall

Football, to me, is a passion, more than a game. It is everything. But more than anything, it is love for Roma. I have always been Roma. There has never been anything else.

Francesco Totti

Writing's all I know. Frankly, I've never been able to do anything else.

Christopher Buckley

I left the convent and that was because I wasn't a very good nun. I could see that I wasn't going to make it. It's very difficult to be a nun, or to live a religious life. It's very difficult to live a life of total celibacy or a life without any possessions or material responsibilities at all, or in total obedience to somebody else, and remain a mature whole human being, and I knew that I wasn't going to be one of those.

Karen Armstrong

I never have anything go wrong. Never have a backache. Never have a headache. Never have anything else.

David H. Murdock

I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life," she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she was going to die. "I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I've always been someone's daughter or mother or wife. I've never just been me." "Oh, Mom," was all I could say as I stroked her hand. I was too young to say anything else."

Cheryl Strayed

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