This is a list of notable former Roman Catholic nuns and Religious Sisters.
- Gertrude Abbott - Founder of St. Margaret's Hospital
- Karen Armstrong – Wrote Through the Narrow Gate on her experience as a nun
- Monica Baldwin – Wrote I Leap Over The Wall: A Return to the World after twenty-eight Years in a Convent
- Katharina Luther – Left the convent to join with the Reformation and ultimately married Martin Luther
- Marianna O'Gallagher – Former nun and teacher, she became an Irish Canadian activist, historian and public speaker
- Jean O'Leary – Co-founder of National Coming Out Day, she wrote Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, roman, catholic and/or nuns:
“Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)
“I made a list of things I have
to remember and a list
of things I want to forget,
but I see they are the same list.”
—Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
“Uprises there
A mother’s form upon my ken,
Guiding my infant steps, as when
We walked that ancient, thoroughfare,
The Roman Road.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“I maintain that I have been a Negro three times—a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“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)