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I went to an all-girls' Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, 'Mum, that's it - I need to go where there are some boys.'

I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.

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.

Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

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

My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.

I was the black atheist kid in the all-white Catholic school run by nuns.

I was in a convent for a year.