Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“Go. Go right now, and as soon, and as often as you can. Keep going.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you,and that you will work with these stories… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation! — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
I have to go to the woods, and I have to meet the wolf, or else my life will never begin. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The predation of wolves and women by those who misunderstand them is strikingly similar. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“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 Image
