“Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the drive to wear odd garments that may cut off circulation, occlude vision, make toes grow sideways, cause riots.” MayGrowsCausesVisionCuttingFashionClothesSexualityListsPrimariesOddToesGarmentsRiotCirculationSidewaysTranslatorsPsychoanalytic Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“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
“While archetypes may emanate through us for short periods of time, in what we call numinous experience, no woman can emanate an archetype continuously. Only the archetype itself can withstand such projections such as ever-able, all giving, eternally energetic. We may try to emulate these, but they are ideals, not achievable by humans, and not meant to be. Yet the trap requires that women exhaust themselves trying to achieve these unrealistic levels. To avoid the trap, one has to learn to say 'Halt' and 'Stop the music,' and of course mean it.” GivingTryingHumansMayMeanAbleCoursesLevelsAchievePeriodsIdealsMeant To BeTrapsProjectionEnergeticHaltEmulateArchetypeEmanateNuminous Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most important psychic decision of her future life - and that is, whether to be bitter or not. Women often come to this in their late thirties or early forties. They are at the point where they are full up to their ears with everything and they've "had it" and "the last straw has broken the camel's back" and they're "pissed off and pooped out." Their dreams of their twenties may be lying in a crumple. There may be broken hearts, broken marriages, broken promises.” HeartMayImportantDreamLastsLyingDecisionOur LivesBrokenPromiseLateEarsTwentiesBitterFortyPsychicsStrawsCamelsPissed OffBroken PromisesFuture LifeBroken Marriage Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“A Prayer Refuse to fall down If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down. If you cannot refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven, and like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven only you. It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good came of this, is not yet listening.” IfsHeartMayFallAsksHeavenPrayerClearMiddleListeningFilledMiseryRefuseHungryLiftsRisingFalling DownLiftingBeggarDark Night Of The Soul Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of our absolute, undeniable, and irrevocable kinship with the wild feminine, a relationship which may have become ghostly from neglect, buried by over-domestication, outlawed by the surrounding culture, or no longer understood anymore. We may have forgotten her names, we may not answer when she calls ours, but in our bones we know her, we yearn toward her, we know she belongs to us and we to her.” KnowsMayCultureNamesMemoriesAnswersUnderstoodAbsolutesForgottenBonesNeglectFeminineBuriedKinshipIrrevocableOld Memories Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“A woman who is starved for her real soul-life may look 'cleaned up and combed' on the outside, but on the inside she is filled with dozens of pleading hands and empty mouths.” LooksMayRealSoulHandsMouthsEmptyFilledDozenPleadingSoul Life Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
