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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.

— Karen Armstrong

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

— Jack Dee

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

— Laurence Housman

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

— Paul Nurse

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

— Marina Warner

I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.

— Karen Armstrong

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school.

— Ann Hood

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

— Tom Perrotta

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

— Sharon Horgan

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was in a convent for a year.

— Beatrice Wood