“ The idea in our culture of body solely as sculpture is wrong. Body is not marble. That is not its purpose. Its purpose is to protect, contain, support and fire the spirit and soul within it, to be a r… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ From her very flesh and blood and from the constant cycles of filling and emptying the red vase in her belly, a woman understands physically, emotionally, and spiritually that zeniths fade and expire,… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ The word pneuma (breath) shares its origins with the word psyche; they are both considered words for soul. So when there is song in a tale or mythos, we know that the gods are being called upon to bre… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ As a woman lives them, she will understand more and more of these interior feminine rhythms, among them the rhythms of creativity, or birthing psychic babies and perhaps also human ones, the rhythms o… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings—all in the same relationship. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
