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The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any landscape.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Talking is the voice of human, singing is the voice of soul.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Stories are medicine.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.
— 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
It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman,don't worry, there is still time — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
We wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than a fire of conflagration.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The only trust required is to know that when there is one ending there will be another beginning.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
That sort of overintellectualization obscures the patterns of the Wild Woman and the instinctual nature of women.
— 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
I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I have to go to the woods, and I have to meet the wolf, or else my life will never begin.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving.
— 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
Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Night is when we are closer to ourselves, closer to essential ideas and feelings that do not register so much during daylight hours.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
This wolf-woman Self must have freedom to move, to speak, to be angry, and to create.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer ... and on the reader.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman ... have faith. There is yet time.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
There is an integrity to story that comes from a real life lived in it. A story is clearly illumined from being raised up in it. In
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
A runner is real when she takes the first step.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I was an aesthete rather than an athlete, and my only wish was to be an ecstatic wanderer.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Dogs are the magicians of the universe.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes