“ We know the soul-spirit can be injured, even maimed, but it is very nearly impossible to kill. You can dent the soul and bend it. You can hurt it and scar it. You can leave the marks of illness upon i… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ A woman's issues of soul cannot be treated by carving her into a more acceptable form as defined by an unconscious culture, nor can she be bent into a more intellectually acceptable shape by those who… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ 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 she must set for herself something in life that she is willing to reach for and… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ So, the word wild here is not used in its modern pejorative sense, meaning out of control, but in its original sense, which means to live a natural life, one in which the criatura, creature, has innat… 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 young, their mate, and their pack. They are e… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ What does this wildish intuition do for women? Like the wolf, intuition has claws that pry things open and pin things down, it has eyes that can through the shields of persona, it has ears that hear b… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ This wolf-woman Self must have freedom to move, to speak, to be angry, and to create. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, and inspiratrice, and intuitive, a maker, a cre… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ 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 the door; if you have an old, old story, that is the door. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ 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 Estes
“ To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy. 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 from your life--not someone else's life--water them with your blood and tears and your lau… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ The one who re-creates from that which has died is always a double-sided archetype. The Creation Mother is always also the Death Mother and vice versa. Because of this dual nature, or double-tasking,… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ When we accept our own wild beauty, it is put into perspective, and we are no longer poignantly aware of it anymore, but neither would we forsake it or disclaim it either. Does a wolf know how beautif… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes adrenaline to surge,… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
