Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

Once women have lost her and then found her again, they will contend to keep her for good. Once they have regained her, they will fight and fight hard to keep her, for with her their creative lives blossom; their relationships gain meaning and depth and health; their cycles of sexuality, creativity, work, and play are re-established; they are no lo

Fairy tales, myths, and stories provide understandings which sharpen our sight so that we can pick out and pick up the path left by the wildish nature. The instruction found in story reassures us that the path has not run out, but still leads women deeper, and more deeply still, into their own knowing. The tracks we all are following are those of t

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

the final work of the exile who finds her own: to not only accept one’s own individuality, one’s specific identity as a certain kind of person, but also to accept one’s beauty ... the shape of one’s soul and the fact that living close to that wild creature transforms us and all that it touches.

Letting the pressure build between who one is taught to be and who one really is.

by putting your foot down, once and for all, and by saying, “I love my creative life more than I love cooperating with my own oppression.”

Though people may perceive that at center her heart is pierced, they may accidentally or purposefully go blind to the evidence of her injury.

To be an innocent means to be able to see clearly what is the matter and to mend it.

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