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Take extra special caution and care to loose yourself into the wild gradually, setting up ethical and protective structures by which you gain tools to measure when something is too much. (You are usually already very sensitive to when something is too little.)
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Hildegard of Bingen, then, displays a critical quality of the archetypal Medial Woman in the European tradition: she might be a mystic, but she is still fully present in the world. She doesn’t eschew the physical for the transcendental — instead, she is profoundly connected with nature.
Sharon Blackie • Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life
Under the tutelage of Wild Woman we reclaim the ancient, the intuitive, and the passionate.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
To love means to stay with.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Perfection or damnation.
Elizabeth Lesser • Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
You may be an exile of some sort, but you have sheltered your soul. There is an odd phenomenon that occurs when one keeps trying to fit and fails. Even though the outcast is driven away, she is at the same time driven right into the arms of her psychic and true kin, whether these be a course of study, an art form, or a group of people. It is worse
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Once they have regained her, they will fight and fight hard to keep her, for with her their creative lives blossom; their
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
The heroes of the twenty-first century will be ordinary individuals—like you and me—who overcome their own sense of hopelessness and bring more to those who are caught in a web of difficulties.