Confessions of a Pagan Nun by Kate Horsley

"Even a man in a cage can speak words, or if his tongue be cut out, hear them, or if his ears be filled with dirt, have them in his mind." -- pp9

"I see no reason to live other than to be free. A person does not have to do anything in this life but die. He may defy everything but death." -- pp9

"I wonder if Eve's seduction of Adam was the result not of evil moral frailty but of her reslessness. Perhaps Adam was more easily amused and satisfied than Eve, who wanted more than the life of a child in a pretty garden." -- pp23

"If we practice self-hatred, then the sacrifice we make of ourselves and our lives is not sacred, for it is then a gift of something we hate rather than of something that we have nurtured and loved." -- pp31