[Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.

Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, nevertheless they give up their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it, and then it's gone. But to surrender what you are, and live without belief - that's more terrible than dying - more terrible than dying young.

I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.

The angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.

If I be not in a state of grace, I pray God place me in it; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.