When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of our absolute,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“We all begin as a bundle of bones lost somewhere in a desert, a dismantled skeleton that lies under the sand. It… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
So, let us push on now, and remember ourselves back to the wild soul. Let us sing her flesh back onto our… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered... — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
I come from a long line of tellers: mesemondok, old Hungarian women who tell while sitting on wooden chairs with their plastic… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in… — 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
