Way back when I was a confused but zealous Catholic teenager, I considered whether I might have a religious vocation. I read some books from the parish library about being a nun, and maybe a few articles in the diocesan newspaper. Nobody at my parish made any effort whatsoever to talk to high school students about religious vocations or help them explore the possibilities, but in any case I came to my own conclusion: If women could be priests, I would have signed up.
But since I wasn’t Episcopalian, and anyway being Episcopalian wouldn’t have worked for my purposes, I decided that being “merely” a religious sister was not my calling.
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