"If I am to be executed, I would rather be executed by the Pope than by my own people."

"The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold on me."

"I would have been a saint if I had remained in the monastery, but I was forced to become a devil."

"A woman must be a woman and cannot be a man. She, too, is God's creature and her divine station is that she should bear and care for and rear children."

"If God has no sense of humor, I don't want to go to Heaven."