Wild Woman teaches women when not to act nice about protecting their soul.Clarissa Pinkola Estés
The soul calls to us through our deep dreams, prompts us through the voices of others.Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Rules and models destroy genius and art.Clarissa Pinkola Estés
A healthy woman is much like a wolf, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, intuitive and loyal.Clarissa Pinkola Estés
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 Estés
To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one’s own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one’s own way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live.Clarissa Pinkola Estés
It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requiresClarissa Pinkola Estés
Laughter is a holy thing. It is as sacred as music and silence and solemnity, maybe more sacred. Laughter is like a prayer, like a bridge over which creatures tiptoe to meet each other. Laughter is like mercy; it heals. When you can laugh at yourself, you are free.Clarissa Pinkola Estés
The wild nature carries the medicine for all things. She carries stories, dreams, words, and songs. She carries everything a woman needs to be and know.Clarissa Pinkola Estés
To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change everything from left to right, from black to white, to move the east to west, to act crazy or out of control. It does not mean to lose one’s primary socializations, or to become less human. It means quite the opposite. The wild nature has a vast integrity to it.Clarissa Pinkola Estés