“ Fortunately, no matter how many times she is pushed down, she bounds up again. No matter how many times she is forbidden, quelled, cut back, diluted, tortured, touted as unsafe, dangerous, mad, and ot… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ If a woman holds on to this gift of being old while she is young and young while she is old, she will always know what comes next If she has lost it, she can yet reclaim it with some purposeful psychi… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ Like night dreams, stores often use symbolic language, therefore bypassing the ego and persona, and traveling straight to the spirit and soul who listen for the ancient and universal instructions embe… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ ...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ I am amazed how little women cry nowadays, and then apologetically. I worry when shame or disuse begins to steal away such a natural function. To be a flowering tree and to be moist is essential, othe… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ Each woman has potential access to Rio Abajo Rio, this river beneath the river. She arrives there through deep meditation, dance, writing, painting, prayermaking, singing, drumming, active imagination… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideationa… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ Stories are medicine. I have been taken with stories since I heard my first. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act, anything -- we need only listen. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ 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 and soulful kinship one requires 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... water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yours… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, on… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
