“To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“Nature does not ask permission. Blossom and birth whenever you feel like it.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“That sort of overintellectualization obscures the patterns of the Wild Woman and the instinctual nature of women.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
When a women speaks her truth, fires up her intention and feeling, stays tight with the instinctive nature, she is singing, she… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The way to maintain one's connection to the wild is to ask yourself what it is that you want. This is the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“We fervently point out how other creatures’ natural territories have become surrounded by cities, ranches, highways, noise, and other dissonance, as though… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change everything from left to right, from black to white, to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“The wild nature has a vast integrity to it. It means to establish one's territory, to find one's pack, to be in… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
With the wild nature as ally and teacher we see not through two eyes but through the many eyes of intuition. With… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“And then there are the cravings.. Oh, la! A woman may crave to be near water, or be belly down, her face… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
“Whether you are possessed of a simple heart or the ambitions of an Amazon, whether you are trying to make it to the top… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share
The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
“Being real doesn't mean being reckless, it means allowing La Voz Mitologica, The Mythological Voice, to speak. One does that by shutting off the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share
Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
“Some psychological thinkers, including Freud and Bettelheim, have interpreted episodes such as those found in the Bluebeard tale as psychological punishments for women’s sexual… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share
If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue with thoughts… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
