“Just because a woman is silent does not mean she agrees.” MeanDoeAgreeSilentGender Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to choose from the hundreds of possibilities of though, feeling, action, and reaction and to put these together in a unique response, expression or message that carries moment, passion and meaning. In this sense, loss of our creative milieu means finding ourselves limited to only one choice, divested of, suppressing, or cendoring feelings and thoughts, not acting, not saying, doing, or being.” MeanMomentsFeelingsAbleActionTogetherChoicesPassionLossAbilityActingCreativityCreativePossibilityExpressionGoes OnFindingsMessagesUniqueResponseReactionsCarrieSuppressingMilieuAction And Reaction Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“We practice conscious forgetting by refusing to summon up the fiery material, we refuse to recollect. To forget is an active, not a passive, endeavor. It means to not haul up certain materials, or turn them over and over, to not work oneself up by repetitive thought, picture, or emotion.” MeanCertainTurnsForgetEmotionPracticeMaterialsConsciousOneselfRefuseActiveEndeavorPassiveFieryRepetitiveHaul 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
“Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.” ThinkingMeanSometimesRunningPainFormDiesPassionRelationshipLetting GoAspectEmbraceSeriesSurfacePhasesRebirthLife DeathLove MeansAnother TimeBoonBack PainDeath And Rebirth Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock at the door of the deep feminine psyche. Llamar o tocar a la puerta means literally to play upon the instrument of the name in order to open a door. It means using words that summon up the opening of a passageway. No matter by which culture a woman is influenced, she understands the words wild and woman, intuitively.” MeanMatterPlayOrderCultureNamesDoorsInstrumentsTalesOpeningFairyFeminineFairy TaleUsing WordsWild Women Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.” MeanEmbraceLove Means Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change everything from left to right, from black to white, to move the east to west, to act crazy or out of control. It does not mean to lose one's primary socializations, or to become less human. It means quite the opposite. The wild nature has a vast integrity to it” HumansMeanDoeMovingLeftBlackLosesWhiteCrazyIntegrityOppositesWestEastPrimariesUndoneSocializationThe Wild Nature Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one's own way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live.” KnowsWayMeanDoeAbleStrongStrengthMeetingsMusclesFleeingSproutsThe Wild Nature Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say that a noncomformist is a blight on society. But it has been proven over the centuries, that being different means standing at the edge, that one is practically guaranteed to make an original contribution, a useful and stunning contribution to her culture.” IfsMeanHas BeensDifferentCultureBlackHealingSeeingCenturyStandingOriginalsEdgesContributionSheepProvenBeing DifferentStunningLoneCringeBlightMaverickLone WolfBlack Sheep Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Latina women are proud to be called Mrs. That simply means that we have a family.” MeanProudLatinaLatina Women Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
