Clarissa Pincola Estes

Art is important for it commemorates the seasons of the soul, or a special or tragic event in the soul’s journey.

Stories are medicine.

This early training to “be nice” causes women to override their intuitions. In that sense, they are actually purposefully taught to submit to the predator.

A woman in such environs will often try to mold her daughter so that she acts “properly” in the outer world—thereby hoping to save her daughter and herself from attack.