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

We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in the hearing of the old nuns who sat by us.

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.

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

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

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.

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.

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 had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.

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!