--- title: "11 Mean Quotes By Clarissa Pinkola Estes" description: "11 Mean quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Plus more from Clarissa Pinkola Estes and more Mean sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb8/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_agree_just-because-a-woman-is-silent-does-not_2087125.png" --- > [Just because a woman is silent does not mean she agrees.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/just-because-a-woman-is-silent-does-not-mean-she-agrees/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb8/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_agree_just-because-a-woman-is-silent-does-not_2087125.png) > [Latina women are proud to be called Mrs. That simply means that we have a family.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/latina-women-are-proud-to-be-called-mrs-that-simply-means-that-we/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78f/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_family_latina-women-are-proud-to-be-called-mrs_1139570.png) > [To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/to-love-means-to-embrace-and-at-the-same-time-to-withstand-many/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df0/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_embrace_to-love-means-to-embrace-and-at-the-same_236359.png) > [To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/to-be-strong-does-not-mean-to-sprout-muscles-and-flex-it-means/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d4/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_able_to-be-strong-does-not-mean-to-sprout-mus_268352.png) > [I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/i-call-her-wild-woman-for-those-very-words-wild-and-woman-create/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f73/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_culture_i-call-her-wild-woman-for-those-very-wor_650177.jpg) > [Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/do-not-cringe-and-make-yourself-small-if-you-are-called-the-black/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/385/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_being-different_do-not-cringe-and-make-yourself-small-if_106806.png) > [We practice conscious forgetting by refusing to summon up the fiery material, we refuse to recollect. To forget is an active, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/we-practice-conscious-forgetting-by-refusing-to-summon-up-the-fiery/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/828/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_active_we-practice-conscious-forgetting-by-refu_3148180.jpg) > [Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/sometimes-the-one-who-is-running-from-the-life-death-life-nature/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22c/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_another-time_sometimes-the-one-who-is-running-from-th_956171.png) > [To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change everything from left to right, from black to white, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/to-adjoin-the-instinctual-nature-does-not-mean-to-come-undone-change/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d38/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_black_to-adjoin-the-instinctual-nature-does-no_2899965.png) > [While archetypes may emanate through us for short periods of time, in what we call numinous experience, no woman can emanate an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/while-archetypes-may-emanate-through-us-for-short-periods-of-time-in/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b19/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_able_while-archetypes-may-emanate-through-us_726744.png) > [To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/to-create-one-must-be-able-to-respond-creativity-is-the-ability-to/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28f/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_ability_to-create-one-must-be-able-to-respond-cr_2325775.jpg) ## Other authors on Mean ## More by Clarissa Pinkola Estes > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/tell-the-truth-about-your-wound-and-then-you-will-get-a-truthful/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [“Whether you are possessed of a simple heart or the ambitions of an Amazon, whether you are trying to make it to the top…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/whether-you-are-possessed-of-a-simple-heart-or-the-ambitions-of-an/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estés](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/the-doors-to-the-world-of-the-wild-self-are-few-but-precious-if-you/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/friends-who-love-you-and-have-warmth-for-your-creative-life-are-the/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/creativity-is-not-a-solitary-movement-that-is-its-power-whatever-is/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/a-healthy-woman-is-much-like-a-wolf-robust-chock-full-strong-life/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/do-not-cringe-and-make-yourself-small-if-you-are-called-the-black/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [Dogs are the magicians of the universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/dogs-are-the-magicians-of-the-universe/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/ours-is-not-the-task-of-fixing-the-entire-world-all-at-once-but-of/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/being-real-doesn-t-mean-being-reckless-it-means-allowing-la-voz/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estés](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/without-art-we-live-under-the-illusion-that-there-is-only-time-and/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/some-psychological-thinkers-including-freud-and-bettelheim-have/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estés](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/if-you-have-never-been-called-a-defiant-incorrigible-impossible-woman/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue with thoughts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/we-all-begin-the-process-before-we-are-ready-before-we-are-strong/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [“To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/to-love-a-woman-the-mate-must-also-love-her-wildish-nature/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estés](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mean/clarissa-pinkola-estes/#itemlist", "name": "11 Mean Quotes By Clarissa Pinkola Estes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Just because a woman is silent does not mean she agrees.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Clarissa Pinkola Estes" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/just-because-a-woman-is-silent-does-not-mean-she-agrees/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb8/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_agree_just-because-a-woman-is-silent-does-not_2087125.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb8/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_agree_just-because-a-woman-is-silent-does-not_2087125.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb8/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_agree_just-because-a-woman-is-silent-does-not_2087125.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Just because a woman is silent does not mean she agrees.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estes", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Latina women are proud to be called Mrs. That simply means that we have a family.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Clarissa Pinkola Estes" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/latina-women-are-proud-to-be-called-mrs-that-simply-means-that-we/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78f/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_family_latina-women-are-proud-to-be-called-mrs_1139570.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78f/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_family_latina-women-are-proud-to-be-called-mrs_1139570.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78f/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_family_latina-women-are-proud-to-be-called-mrs_1139570.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Latina women are proud to be called Mrs. That simply means that we have a family.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estes", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Clarissa Pinkola Estes" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/to-love-means-to-embrace-and-at-the-same-time-to-withstand-many/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df0/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_embrace_to-love-means-to-embrace-and-at-the-same_236359.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df0/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_embrace_to-love-means-to-embrace-and-at-the-same_236359.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df0/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_embrace_to-love-means-to-embrace-and-at-the-same_236359.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in…” — Clarissa Pinkola Estes", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. 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The wild nature has a vast integrity to it", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Clarissa Pinkola Estes" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/to-adjoin-the-instinctual-nature-does-not-mean-to-come-undone-change/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d38/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_black_to-adjoin-the-instinctual-nature-does-no_2899965.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d38/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_black_to-adjoin-the-instinctual-nature-does-no_2899965.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d38/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_black_to-adjoin-the-instinctual-nature-does-no_2899965.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change everything from left to right, from…” — Clarissa Pinkola Estes", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "While archetypes may emanate through us for short periods of time, in what we call numinous experience, no woman can emanate an archetype continuously. Only the archetype itself can withstand such projections such as ever-able, all giving, eternally energetic. We may try to emulate these, but they are ideals, not achievable by humans, and not meant to be. Yet the trap requires that women exhaust themselves trying to achieve these unrealistic levels. 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