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I was in a convent for a year.

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

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.

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.

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.

A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends.

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