Feminism Quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

8 Feminism quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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Estés’s eight brief lines blend her storytelling with a quick look at her take on women's inner strength.

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“Some psychological thinkers, including Freud and Bettelheim, have interpreted episodes such as those found in the Bluebeard tale as psychological punishments for…

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As long as a woman is forced into believing she is powerless and/or is trained to not consciously register what she knows…

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“These transient “tastes of the wild” come during the mystique of inspiration—ah, there it is; oh, now it has gone. The longing…

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“Like a trail through a forest which becomes more and more faint and finally seems to diminish to a nothing, traditional psychologiical…

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“While I do not in any way mean to say that a woman should throw herself into a torturous or abusive situation,…

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“That sort of overintellectualization obscures the patterns of the Wild Woman and the instinctual nature of women.”

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If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black…

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“A woman's issues of soul cannot be treated by carving her into a more acceptable form as defined by an unconscious culture,…

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“Whether you are possessed of a simple heart or the ambitions of an Amazon, whether you are trying to make it to the top…

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The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if…

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Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.

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Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it,…

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A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving.

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Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say…

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Dogs are the magicians of the universe.

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Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world…

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“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…

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Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.

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“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…

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