"That conversation... was as dirty as a sewer! It is not enough for you to take no part in it. You must show your repugnance for it strongly!"

Next Quote

The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.

— Marina Warner