Catholic Women Quotes

#1. The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.

Andrew Greeley

#2. Protestant women may take the pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking The Tablet.

Irene Thomas

#3. The problem is that we don't believe that we are much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholic and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own.

Mitch Albom

#4. The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

Shirley Williams

#5. They were Catholic, my lovers,
All in an access of crossing themselves,
Particularly their fingers
Behind their suspendered backs
And that was the women.

Shay Caroline

#6. I feel very strongly about contraception even though I know people say that, as a good Catholic girl, I shouldn't. But I disagree because I think one of the keys to women's progression in the 20th century is being able to control their fertility.

Cherie Blair

#7. I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.

Nelson Algren

#8. Secular journalists ... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti - gay. If these people were honest, they would have to admit that the Bible is also pro - slavery and anti - women.

John Shelby Spong

#9. If it's successful and it sounds awesome, and looks killer live, then I guess I can pat myself on the back and take all the credit too.

Tommy Lee

#10. She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.

Anne Stuart

#11. Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

Peter Mullan

#12. Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.

John Updike

#13. In 40 years I have not spent 15 minutes without thinking of Jesus.

Charles Spurgeon

#14. This means that at some point in time Elohim was surrounded by absolute nothingness.

Paul Richardson

#15. I am what is known as a benched Catholic and disillusioned by the church doctrine. I believe in things the Catholic Church does not believe in: divorce being one, and a women's right to choose being another.

Kitty Kelley

#16. Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.

Christopher West

#17. I began to meet young men and women who talked about having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and while I cherish my Catholic upbringing and the foundation that it poured in my faith, that had not been a part of my experience.

Mike Pence

#18. To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment ... would result in the demolition of society.

Karl Polanyi

#19. I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France.

John Tesh

#20. The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's condemnation for me? These are the same people that won't support national condom distribution that PREVENTS teenage pregnancy.

Sonya Renee Taylor

#21. For many years, despite what I thought were really punitive decisions about women in the church, I stayed and stayed and stayed. I kept saying to myself, "The Catholic church is my church, and by God, I'm going to stay here, despite what the hierarchy does."

Anna Quindlen

#22. The Roman Catholic church ... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.

Robin Morgan

#23. When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.

Nicholas Sparks

#24. If one's careful study of the facts shows that the Catholic Church is correct about Jesus-his life, teachings, death, and Resurrection-then why not give the Church the benefit of the doubt and carefully study her reasons for rejecting contraception, homosexual acts, and women's ordination?

Carl E. Olson

#25. Abortion is a denial of one of those powers which make women women.

Janet E. Smith

#26. In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.

Andrew Greeley

#27. I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon. (on women's suffrage)

Susan B. Anthony

#28. I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyways. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it sometime. Try and take it.

Ernest Hemingway,

#29. Have you not often met poor old women who are most faithful to the pious recitation of the Rosary? You also must do all that you can to recite it with fervour. Get right down, at the feet of Jesus: it is a good thing to make oneself small in the presence of so great a God.

Columba Marmion

#30. I dont like Jews. Or colored folk. Or natives, now that you mention it ... I bet you like Catholics. Cant stand them either. Nor women, Fabians, Socialists, homosexuals, Asians, or British.

Herbert

#31. Though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are still pretty glorious.

Jack Kerouac

#32. Ninety-eight percent of women in childbearing age who are Catholic use contraception. Ok, so in practice the church has not enforced this and now they want the federal government and private insurance to enforce it. It just isn't consistent to me.

Nancy Pelosi

#33. Sometimes we're not even aware that we're afraid.

Spencer Johnson

#34. I think both Protestants and Catholics have killed the woman for the sake of the mother. (Rubem Alves, p. 201)

Mev Puleo

#35. So the sound she'd heard had been wings rather than demented passion. That was disappointing

Cassandra Clare

#36. With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn't happened to me yet.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#37. Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

John Mayer

#38. Everyone judges, it's a human nature.

Nicholas Sparks

#39. As a Catholic, I am proud of the social mission of the church and its concerns for the poor and dispossessed, but I still personally would support women priests.

Cherie Blair