- Catherine: Ever since I was a child, I felt like greatness was in store for me. A Great life, I felt. Like God himself had spat me forth to land on this Earth and in some way transform it. That I was here for a reason, a purpose.
- Marial: Why did He make you a woman, then?
- Catherine: For comedy, I guess.
- Catherine: [reading Denis Diderot] Men will never be free until the last king has been strangled with the entrails of the last priest.