Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Failure is a greater teacher than success

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Stories are medicine.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Be wild; that is how to clear the river.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Nurture is like psychic Wheaties.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“a scar is stronger than skin.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

The soul has no gender.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Dogs are the magicians of the universe.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

When you focus with soul eyes, / You will see home in many, many places.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

If logic was anything, all men would ride sidesaddles.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Mend the part of the world that is within your reach.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

A runner is real when she takes the first step.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Even in the best of worlds the soul needs refurbishing from time to time.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“That sort of overintellectualization obscures the patterns of the Wild Woman and the instinctual nature of women.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“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

Though her soul requires seeing, the culture around her requires sightlessness. Though her soul wishes to speak its truth, she is pressured…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The desire to force love to live only in its most positive form is what causes love ultimately to fall over dead.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

When a women speaks her truth, fires up her intention and feeling, stays tight with the instinctive nature, she is singing, she…

— 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…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you,and that you will work with these stories…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

No Latina woman would be called 'Ms.' - that's an invention of middle-class Anglo women. Latina women are proud to be called…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love,…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Suppose... the body is a God in its own right, a teacher, a mentor, a certified guide? Then what? … Are we…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

When a woman is exhorted to be compliant, cooperative, and quiet, to not make upset or go against the old guard, she…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“El duende is literally the goblin wind or force behind a person’s actions and creative life, including the way they walk, the…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“The way to maintain one's connection to the wild is to ask yourself what it is that you want. This is the…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

I come from a long line of tellers: mesemondok, old Hungarian women who tell while sitting on wooden chairs with their plastic…

— 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…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

When a woman is frozen of feeling, when she can no longer feel herself, when her blood, her passion, no longer reach…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

What is that which can never die It is that faithful force that is born into us that one that is greater…

— 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…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes