Clarissa Pinkola Estés Quotes

born 1945 United States

Clarissa Pinkola Estés (born January 27, 1945) is a first-generation American writer and Jungian psychoanalyst. She is the author of Women Who Run with the Wolves (1992), which remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 145 weeks and has sold over two million copies.

United States
20th-century poets
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Feminists
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Random Clarissa Pinkola Estés quote

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The pathologizing of variation in women's bodies is a deep bias endorsed by many psychological theorists, most certainly by Freud.

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (1996)

I must reveal to you that I am not one of the Divine who march into the desert and return gravid with wisdom.

We need to see and understand that whatever stands behind nature is what is god. Nature itself, it is the manifestation.

Interview (2019)

My theory, which is a blasphemous and heinous theory, is that as long as men elevate the maiden and the sexual woman, they will trash the mother and the daughter.

Interview (2019)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Clarissa Pinkola Estés (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.