Quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

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Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories... water — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic a — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin. — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Failure is a greater teacher than success — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
I'll tell you right now, the doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on. — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
This wolf-woman Self must have freedom to move, to speak, to be angry, and to create. — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
What does this wildish intuition do for women? Like the wolf, intuition has claws that pry things open and pin things do — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuiti — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
So, the word wild here is not used in its modern pejorative sense, meaning out of control, but in its original sense, wh — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
While I do not in any way mean to say that a woman should throw herself into a torturous or abusive situation, I do mean — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
A woman's issues of soul cannot be treated by carving her into a more acceptable form as defined by an unconscious cultu — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Even in the best of worlds the soul needs refurbishing from time to time. — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
We know the soul-spirit can be injured, even maimed, but it is very nearly impossible to kill. You can dent the soul and — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings—all in the same relati — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
As a woman lives them, she will understand more and more of these interior feminine rhythms, among them the rhythms of c — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
The word pneuma (breath) shares its origins with the word psyche; they are both considered words for soul. So when there — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Stories are medicine. I have been taken with stories since I heard my first. They have such power; they do not require t — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype