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Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
3.92 AVERAGE
2.01k reviews for:
Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
3.92 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
"Stories are medicine. I have been taken with stories since I heard my first. They have such power, they do not require that we do, be, act, anything - we need only listen."
Women Who Run with the Wolves is a journey through both the female psyche using folklore as a lens, or perhaps as a vessel with which to navigate the deep waters. There is joy, despair, hope, sadness, healing, and perhaps most importantly, such a deep knowing of the wild woman's spirit in this book.
This book was heavy in a good way. I could only read it in bits and pieces, like a rich cake or pie. Every time I read it I learned something new about myself, or the world, or how culture has shaped my subconscious in both positive and negative ways. It felt like I was setting something free in myself that I didn't know was trapped.
Who should read this book: Women who are starting to sense that there is more to life than just what consumerism, capitalism, and American politics have handed them. Women who enjoy reading about the psychology of the spirit, who want to peer into their own rich, inner landscape a little more. And of course, women who run, or want to run, with wolves.
Women Who Run with the Wolves is a journey through both the female psyche using folklore as a lens, or perhaps as a vessel with which to navigate the deep waters. There is joy, despair, hope, sadness, healing, and perhaps most importantly, such a deep knowing of the wild woman's spirit in this book.
This book was heavy in a good way. I could only read it in bits and pieces, like a rich cake or pie. Every time I read it I learned something new about myself, or the world, or how culture has shaped my subconscious in both positive and negative ways. It felt like I was setting something free in myself that I didn't know was trapped.
Who should read this book: Women who are starting to sense that there is more to life than just what consumerism, capitalism, and American politics have handed them. Women who enjoy reading about the psychology of the spirit, who want to peer into their own rich, inner landscape a little more. And of course, women who run, or want to run, with wolves.
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informative
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slow-paced
Perhaps a non-abridged version would change my rating, but I did not end up enjoying this read for the most part, despite being very interested in feminist literature.
It feels like in attempt to break women free from the boxes they were historically put in the author just creates a new box and is very pretentious about it.
Some passages I really agreed with, others lost me. Obviously this book is also a product of it's time of release and how far feminism had progressed then compared to now.
It feels like in attempt to break women free from the boxes they were historically put in the author just creates a new box and is very pretentious about it.
Some passages I really agreed with, others lost me. Obviously this book is also a product of it's time of release and how far feminism had progressed then compared to now.
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I can tell from the first chapter that this isn't going to be for me. It's far too "every woman has this experience" for me to get on board.
mysterious
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reflective
slow-paced