If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes 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
Forgiveness is an act of creation. You can choose from many ways to do it. You can forgive for now, forgive till… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, no matter how many times she is pushed down, she bounds up again. No matter how many times she is forbidden,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
While archetypes may emanate through us for short periods of time, in what we call numinous experience, no woman can emanate an… — 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
Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a woman is afraid to be without security or without certainty, for even a short time. She has more excuses than… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
Do not lose heart. We were made for these times.....For years we have been learning, practicing, been in training for...and just waiting… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“There is probably no better or more reliable measure of whether a woman has spent time in ugly duckling status at some… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too, have felt despair many times in my life, but I do… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world.… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
All the "not readies," all the "I need time," are understandable, but only for a short while. The truth is that there… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“However, the miracle we are seeking takes time: time to find it, time to bring it to life.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“Even in the best of worlds the soul needs refurbishing from time to time.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
Any time I find medicine that's helpful, I share it with everyone I know. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman, don't worry, there is still time — 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
