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“In a barren culture, one or two fragmentary story-themes play, like a broken record, broadcasting the same notes over and over again.”

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Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“Your story is where the revolution begins.”

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Author:Jeanette LeBlanc

“A story. This was the key to immortality. The things that made kings quiver and deities distrustful: Nothing but a tale.”

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Book:A Crown of Wishes

Source: A Crown of Wishes

“A story could lead you into a different world for a while. It might be a world where a foolish youngest son could turn into a brave and clever hero, or a beaten young woman could end up as a wise leader of folk. And when the story was ended and that world was gone, you still had the idea of it inside you. Like a flame that didn't go out even when the bad things rattled and swirled and screamed, and worse, oh, much worse, when they whispered and goaded and tormented.”

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Book:Den of Wolves

Source: Den of Wolves

“But this is the power of storytelling, isn’t it? To make sense of the things we can’t figure out ourselves. We make up gods and monsters and origin stories and archetypes and tell each other it’s all explainable so we don’t have to feel the weight of the unknown. That’s the theory anyway. The practice is that we’re all so much better at seeing the faults of others, at watching them make their mistakes and judging from afar, our social telescopes so much more powerful than the microscopes we forget to use on ourselves.”

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Book:Fully Functioning: a postpartum descent into obsessive fangirling

Source: Fully Functioning: a postpartum descent into obsessive fangirling

“It is not too much to say that a lack of compelling and unpredictable heroic stories can deaden an individual’s and a culture’s overall creative life – can pulverize it right down to powder.”

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Author:Estella Pinkola Estés