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To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature.
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Holy Mother is not meant to be a fence: Holy Mother is a Gate.
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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.
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Talking is the voice of human, singing is the voice of soul.
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Wild Woman teaches women when not to act "nice" about protecting their soulful lives.
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Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Stories are medicine.
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The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Mystery can be overwhelming. Touching Divinity can seem like all one's atoms composing mind and body have suddenly been rearranged.
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It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.
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Wild Women: "They know instinctively when things must die and when things must live; they know how to walk away, they know how to stay.
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Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground.
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Many of us have lived desert lives: very small on the surface, and enormous under the ground.
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Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.
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We can see that for the deep work to continue, trying to prove one's worth to the chorus of jealous hags is pointless.
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Go. Go right now, and as soon, and as often as you can. Keep going.
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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.
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This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.
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To love pleasure takes little. To love truly takes a hero who can manage his own fear.
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When you feel bad, find a person to talk to and cry with, to tell of your anger and other helpless feelings.
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It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.
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She must be willing to feel anxious sometimes, otherwise she might as well have stayed in the nest. Sometimes
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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
Nature does not ask permission. Blossom and birth whenever you feel like it.
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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.
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If logic was anything, all men would ride sidesaddles..
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Just because a woman is silent does not mean she agrees.
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Nurture is like psychic Wheaties.
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Sometimes there are no words to help one's courage. Sometimes you just have to jump.
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The only trust required is to know that when there is one ending there will be another beginning.
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I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body.
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If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman ... have faith. There is yet time.
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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
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I was an aesthete rather than an athlete, and my only wish was to be an ecstatic wanderer.
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Dogs are the magicians of the universe.
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We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our endurance and efforts to help others.
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Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.
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Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.
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When you focus with soul eyes, / You will see home in many, many places.
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Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.
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For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have need.
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The desire to force love to live only in its most positive form is what causes love ultimately to fall over dead.
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To take the world into one's arms and act towards it in a soul-filled and soul-strengthening manner is a powerful act of wildish spirit.
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There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal.
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The soul has no gender.
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So, let us push on now, and remember ourselves back to the wild soul. Let us sing her flesh back onto our bones.
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Even if one has friends, those friends may not be suns.
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Remember, if logic were all there really was to the world, then surely all men would ride sidesaddle
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Any time I find medicine that's helpful, I share it with everyone I know.
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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
This wolf-woman Self must have freedom to move, to speak, to be angry, and to create.
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That sort of overintellectualization obscures the patterns of the Wild Woman and the instinctual nature of women.
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Night is when we are closer to ourselves, closer to essential ideas and feelings that do not register so much during daylight hours.
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Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.
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The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit.
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Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.
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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
Stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.
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A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving.
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I have to go to the woods, and I have to meet the wolf, or else my life will never begin.
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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.
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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.
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The predation of wolves and women by those who misunderstand them is strikingly similar.
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Artfulness is not simple entertainment, especially during upheaval,
unleashing creative life is sacred duty. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.
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Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered ...
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A runner is real when she takes the first step.
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Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer ... and on the reader.
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When seeking guidance, don't ever listen to the tiny-hearted. Be kind to them, heap them with blessing, cajole them, but do not follow their advice.
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Unfurl the bandages, ready the medicine. Let us return now, wild women howling, laughing, singing up The One who loves us.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
A woman must be able to stand in the face of power, because ultimately some part of that power will become hers.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Even in the best of worlds the soul needs refurbishing from time to time.
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