Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés
“Art is not just for oneself, not just a marker of one’s own understanding. It is also a map for those who follow after us.” –Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés
“Art is not just for oneself, not just a marker of one’s own understanding. It is also a map for those who follow after us.” –Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés
“And another thing about equality is that it cannot coexist with rape. It cannot. And it cannot coexist with pornography or with prostitution or with the economic degradation of women on any level, in any way. It cannot coexist, because implicit in all those things is the inferiority of women.” …
“A soulful personality is complicated, multifaceted, and shaped by both pain and pleasure, success and failure. Life lived soulfully is not without its moments of darkness and periods of foolishness.” —Thomas Moore
“In spite of countless examples to the contrary—Baldwin, Hughes, Ellison, Morrison, Walker, Angelou, James (and who could hope to fill such lofty shoes?)—I didn’t think my voice would be valued in the world. In many ways I still don’t. To the extent that I go forward anyway, I do so …