Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD

Women Who Run With the Wolves

The modern world is steadily imposing itself upon untamed nature, and in this process, a fragment of our spirit is fading. Regulations and limitations have been repressing the instinctual dimension of the human psyche for millennia. Women have especially endured the weight of this repression, as European culture has a long history of attempting to control and domesticate them.

Youthful and vibrant women, when free, resemble wolves—resilient, spirited, guided by profound instincts, nurturing, and deeply loyal to their kin. And similar to wolves, women diminish when confined by external forces.

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