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

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Review ?Women Who Run with the Wolves isn’t just another book. It is a gift ofprofound insight, wisdom, and love. An oracle from one who knows.?AliceWalker ?I am grateful to Women Who Run with the Wolves and to Dr. ClarissaPinkola Est??s. The work shows the reader how glorious it is to be daring, tobe caring, and to be women. Everyone who can read should read this book.?MayaAngelou ?An inspiring book, the ?vitamins for the soul’ [for] women who arecut off from their intuitive nature.?San Francisco Chronicle ?Stands out fromthe pack . . . a joy and sparkle in [the] prose . . . This book will become abible for women interested in doing deep work. . . . It is a road map of allthe pitfalls, those familiar and those horrifically unexpected, that a womanencounters on the way back to her instinctual self. Wolves . . . is agift.?Los Angeles Times ?A mesmerizing voice . . . dramatic storytelling shelearned at the knees of her [immigrant] aunts.?Newsweek ?The work of ClarissaPinkola Est??s, rooted in old and deep family rites and in archetypalpsychology, recognizes that the soul is not lost, but has been put to sleep.This volume reminds us that we are nature for all our sophistication, that weare still wild, and the recovery of that vitality will itself set us right inthe world.?Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul Read more From the InsideFlap UPDATED, WITH NEW MATERIAL BY THE AUTHOR”WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVESisn’t just another book. It is a gift of profound insight, wisdom, and love.An oracle from one who knows.”–Alice WalkerWithin every woman there lives apowerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and agelessknowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature ofwomen. But she is an endangered species. In WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES, Dr.Estes unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, and stories, many fromher own family, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy,visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories andcommentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, andunderstand the Wild Woman and hold her against our deep psyches as one who isboth magic and medicine. Dr. Estes has created a new lexicon for describingthe female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in thetruest sense, a knowing of the soul.”This volume reminds us that we are naturefor all our sophistication, that we are still wild, and the recovery of thatvitality will itself set us right in the world.”–Thomas Moore Author of Careof the Soul”I am grateful to WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES and to Dr. ClarissaPinkola Estes. The work shows the reader how glorious it is to be daring, tobe caring, and to be women. Everyone who can read should read this book.”–Maya Angelou”An inspiring book, the ‘vitamins for the soul’ [for] women whoare cut off from their intuitive nature.”–San Francisco Chronicle”Stands outfrom the pack . . . A joy and sparkle in [the] prose . . . This book willbecome a bible for women interested indoing deep work. . . . It is a road mapof all the pitfalls, those familiar and those horrifically unexpected, that awoman encounters on the way back to her instinctual self. Wolves . . . is agift.”–Los Angeles Times”A mesmerizing voice . . . Dramatic storytelling shelearned at the knees of her [immigrant] aunts.”–Newsweek Read more See allEditorial Reviews

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Product Details:

• Mass Market Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books; Reissue edition (November 27, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345409876
• ISBN-13: 74
• Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1 x 6.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• #1 in Mythology (Books)