“The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream.” MayLittlesFeelingsBodyRememberWaterMemoriesFlowFilledFingersBonesFleshCellsStreamsTouchedJointsSponges Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“When women are relegated to moods, mannerisms, and contours that conform to a single ideal of beauty and behavior, they are captured in both body and soul, and are no longer free.” SoulBodyBehaviorIdealsMoodConformCapturedMannerisms Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“It makes utter sense to stay healthy and strong, to be as nourishing to the body as possible. Yet I would have to agree, there is in many women a 'hungry' one inside. But rather than hungry to be a certain size, shape, or height, rather than hungry to fit the stereotype; women are hungry for basic regard from the culture surrounding them. The 'hungry' one inside is longing to be treated respectfully, to be accepted and in the very least, to be met without stereotyping.” BodyCertainCultureStrongHealingFitHealthyMetsShapesRegardAgreeLongingSizeAcceptedHungryTreatedHeightTeensStereotype Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. . . . It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirits, the pit at the center, and rising hope.” LifeHeartBodyPainSpiritFallSpeakColorRecognitionHeatRisingAshesPitsTemperatureColdnessArousal Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body.” BodyBuiltExtravagant Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Suppose... the body is a God in its own right, a teacher, a mentor, a certified guide? Then what? .... Are we strong enough to refute the party line and listen deep, listen true to the body as a powerful and holy being?” EnoughBodyStrongLinesPowerfulPartyTeacherHolyGuidesMentorStrong Enough Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“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.” FeelingsBodyHandsEarthPowerCuttingFingersVulnerableLandscapeTouchingParcel Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
