"When I am assailed by temptation, I find it good to eat, drink, and be merry, so that I may not be alone with the devil."

"I would rather be a sow than a Christian if I had to believe that God is as cruel as some say."

"The world is a great privy and I am a stool."

"Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children...If a woman grows weary and, at last, dies from childbearing, it matters not. Let her die from bearing - she is ther…"

"I never learned to pray as I ought until I had been scourged by the devil."