“Wild Woman teaches women when not to act "nice" about protecting their soulful lives.” — 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
“Sometimes there are no words to help one's courage. Sometimes you just have to jump.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“A woman must be able to stand in the face of power, because ultimately some part of that power will become hers.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“The only trust required is to know that when there is one ending there will be another beginning.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“We can see that for the deep work to continue, trying to prove one's worth to the chorus of jealous hags is… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“That sort of overintellectualization obscures the patterns of the Wild Woman and the instinctual nature of women.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“That is, to be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“How does Wild Woman affect women? With her as ally, as leader, model, teacher, we see, not through two eyes, but through… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“All creatures must learn that there exist predators. Without this knowing, a woman will be unable to negotiate safely within her own… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés 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… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
With the wild nature as ally and teacher we see not through two eyes but through the many eyes of intuition. With… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“While I do not in any way mean to say that a woman should throw herself into a torturous or abusive situation,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“So, the word wild here is not used in its modern pejorative sense, meaning out of control, but in its original sense,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“We dismantle the predator by countering its diatribes with our own nurturant truths. Predator: You never finish anything you start. Yourself: I… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“A woman's issues of soul cannot be treated by carving her into a more acceptable form as defined by an unconscious culture,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“Women's curiosity was given a negative connotation, whereas men were called investigative. Women were called nosy, whereas men were called inquiring. In… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. We were taught… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“What does this wildish intuition do for women? Like the wolf, intuition has claws that pry things open and pin things down,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés 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
“So what compromises the Wild Woman? From the viewpoint of archetypal psychology as well as in ancient traditions, she is the female… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry. — 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
Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered... — 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
