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Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.

~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Topics: Aggressive Been Both Concerned Deeply Devious Endurance Falsely Great Inquiring Intensely Intuitive Less Mate Nature Overly Pack Possessed Strength Than Those Value Who Wolves Women Women Are Young

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I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

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Topics: Blood Bloom Burst Go Happen Hope Laughter Out Stories Tears Them Till Water Will Work You Your Yourself

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This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Topics: Does Emotion Erase Forgetting Kind Lays Memory Rest Surrounding

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Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

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Topics: Action Asking Causes Central Doors Key Open Proper Psyche Questions Secret Swing Transformation

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When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.

~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Topics: Creator Gifted Guide Inner Internal Intuitive Inventor Life Listener Maker Nature Oracle Outer Outer World Permanent Relationship Suggest Urge Vibrant Visionary Who Women World

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The drive toward Life is protective, thoughtful, vulnerable, and invested in immaculate love. It is this last that marks the difference between a wise heart muddy with real life experiences in the trenches and a dry heart that functions on rote concepts alone.

~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Topics: Alone Between Concepts Difference Drive Dry Experiences Functions Heart Invested Last Life Life Experiences Love Marks Muddy Protective Real Real Life Rote Thoughtful Toward Trenches Vulnerable Wise

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Any time I find medicine that's helpful, I share it with everyone I know.

~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Topics: Any Everyone Find Helpful Know Medicine Share Time

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Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons.

~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Topics: Act Because Been Completed Forgiveness Layers Many People Seasons Singular Sitting Taught Trouble

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We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our endurance and efforts to help others.

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Topics: Be Brave Brave Disaster Efforts Endurance Face Help Help Others Looked Others Our Strong Up Wish

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There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul's suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.

~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Topics: Blank Blank Page Condemnation Life Listening My Life Often Only Page Poetry Poets Reason Receiving Saved Say Softly Soul Story Suffering Without

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: January 27th, 1945

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