The Vocation to Religious Life

I've been thinking a lot about vocations recently, and I came up with a question that I don't quite have the answer to yet, but it is something to ponder.

Often, you hear that that priesthood is the highest of the vocations (priesthood, religious life, marriage, single). And so with looking at that idea that for men, the priesthood is a higher vocation than marriage, could you also say that religious life is a higher vocation than marriage for women? If you think about it, the woman in religious life is married to Christ. Since Christ is the greatest man ever, wouldn't a woman in religious life then be married to the greatest man that she could possibly marry? That might be something of a rhetorical question, but when you think about it, a woman in religious life becomes more and more one with Christ through their marriage. The two become one flesh. How much more could you be like Christ than becoming one flesh with him? And just thinking about people like St. Catherine of Sienna, you can't pass up her visions of her marriage with Christ. Modern psychology would say that she had a case of repressed sexuality. But when you really think about it, she had far from that. She actually understood her sexuality more and was willing to give more to Christ as His bride. She was able to become closer to Him than most married people are with each other. Repressed sexuality?...I think not...How about hightened sexuality. And, if a woman can undergo this, then is her vocation higher than that of marriage?

I don't know the answer to this, but it is something to ponder.

Please feel free to voice any opinions on this.