Clarissa Pincola Estes – Women Who Run With The Wolves – Myths And Storie by the Wild Woman Archetype

Now their end-of-the-day fatigue comes from satisfying work and endeavors, not from being shut up in too small a mindset, job, or relationship. They know instinctively when things must die and when things must live; they know how to walk away, they know how to stay.

We see women who listen to someone telling them they are wrongheaded over and over again without understanding that cats don't swim and hens don’t dive under water.

Some women act as though it is an achievement to be cold. It is not. It is an act of defensive anger.

Can’t do anything right. Try to make it better. Makes it worse instead.

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.

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.

Stories are medicine.

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

She is what she is and she is whole.

A woman’s issues of soul cannot be treated by carving her into a more acceptable form as defined by an unconscious culture, nor can she be bent into a more intellectually acceptable shape by those who claim to be the sole bearers of consciousness.