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

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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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)

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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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.'

William Shakespeare As You Like It (1599)

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

George Chapman All Fools (1605)

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