When a woman is exhorted to be compliant, cooperative, and quiet, to not make upset or go against the old guard, she is pressed into living a most unnatural life- a life that is self-blinding.. . without innovation. The world-wide… — 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
“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
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
Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
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
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
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
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
“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
Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
“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
If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
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 Copy Share
