Wild Quotes 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…

— 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…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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

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

— 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,…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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

— 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…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Dogs are the magicians of the universe.

— 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…

— 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…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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

— 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…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.

— 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…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés