Jain Monasticism - Famous Historical Jain Nuns

Famous quotes containing the words famous, historical and/or nuns:

“Marrying any man is risky. Marrying a famous man is kissing catastrophe.”
—John Colton (1886–1946)

“Reason, progress, unselfishness, a wide historical perspective, expansiveness, generosity, enlightened self-interest. I had heard it all my life, and it filled me with despair.”
—Katherine Tait (b. 1923)

“Both nuns and mothers worship images,
But those the candles light are not as those
That animate a mother’s reveries,
But keep a marble or a bronze repose.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)