“Virginity is not only a giving, but a receiving… a woman who knows herself to be completely cherished is a woman of confidence and poise. This Carrie’s over into the spiritual life and gives a Poor Clare interior confidence and spiritual poise in whatever sorrows or trials may lie ahead. She does penance, she may suffer in multitudinous and soul-searching ways. But she knows she is loved, cherished, chosen. That is really all a woman needs.”