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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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