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Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
3.92 AVERAGE
2.03k reviews for:
Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
3.92 AVERAGE
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
I enjoyed the way we looked at fairytales that made me evaluate how women fit into our culture and society. The
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a good reminder on taking care of yourself.
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a good reminder on taking care of yourself.
I wish GR gave half stars. This is a 3.5 star book for me. It reads kind of like a term paper on folk stories where a folk story is told and then a thesis on the topic and how it relates to the 'wild woman'.
It kind of feels like if you can read between the lines, you'll understand how the folk stories relate back to the archetype but it's still nice to hear her thoughts on the matter.
It kind of feels like if you can read between the lines, you'll understand how the folk stories relate back to the archetype but it's still nice to hear her thoughts on the matter.
This book is both history and a map of the deep and wild feminine. This is a book that I will absolutely re-visit.
This is a spirtual reference book for me. I come to it from time to time when I'm feeling out of sorts. I usually brows the tale of contents and find a section that reflects what it is that I am feeling. As soon as I begin to read the section I feel more and more grounded. This is an important book for women of all ages to have access to. It frequently provides me with insight into the female psychie and experience that is often missing in the main stream.
Filled with wisdom, this book is about being true to your soul, and educates us to surround ourselves with people who bring us warmth, like the sun does to flowers. Simply, beautifully written.
I read an excerpt from this book in a book called A Woman's World: True Stories of Life [b:on the Road|6288|The Road|Cormac McCarthy|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21E8H3D1JSL._SL75_.jpg|3355573]. The book I read isn't on GoodReads, but I really liked a particular quote from the excerpt. It was on p. 59 of the book I read.
"The body is a multicultural being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. It speaks through its constant tiny dance, sometimes swaying, sometimes a-jitter, sometimes trembling. It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirit, the pit at the center, and rising hope.
"The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream."
This reminds me of another quote that I loved when I was in college -- something about the body telling the story of a person's life through the scars and muscular tension and wrinkles that we accumulate through our lives.
"The body is a multicultural being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. It speaks through its constant tiny dance, sometimes swaying, sometimes a-jitter, sometimes trembling. It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirit, the pit at the center, and rising hope.
"The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream."
This reminds me of another quote that I loved when I was in college -- something about the body telling the story of a person's life through the scars and muscular tension and wrinkles that we accumulate through our lives.
This book is both history and a map of the deep and wild feminine. It gave me guide posts and connections for things I've experienced but couldn't previously name. My copy is dog eared and underlined.
I usually hate to DNF a book, but I had to return it to the library and was having a hard time getting into it anyway.