“To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
To love pleasure takes little. To love truly takes a hero who can manage his own fear. — 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
The desire to force love to live only in its most positive form is what causes love ultimately to fall over dead. — 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
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
The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Three things differentiate living from the soul verses living from the ego only: the ability to sense and learn new ways, 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
“These transient “tastes of the wild” come during the mystique of inspiration—ah, there it is; oh, now it has gone. The longing… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its colour and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés 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
