I understand why the saints were rarely married women. It has primarily to do with distractions . . . Woman's normal occupations run counter to creative life, or contemplative life or saintly life.
Source: In Shorter Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, by John Bartlett, 1937, 1980, 1992.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, (Jun 22 1906-2001), US writer; She wrote Listen! The Wind, 1938 and A Gift From the Sea, 1955, and was the wife of Charles Lindbergh.