Kara

“I think her precocious intellectual development is what happens to bright and sensitive kids when the emotional environment isn't able to hold them. They develop this very powerful intellect that holds them instead.”
― Fariha Roisin, Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

“The deepest work is usually the darkest. A brave woman, a wisening woman, will
develop the poorest psychic land, for if she builds only on the best land of her psyche,
she will have for a view the least of what she is. So do not be afraid to investigate the
worst.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“We may have been taught to set aside acute insight in order to get along. However, the reward for simply being nice in oppressive circumstances is to be mistreated all the more. Although a woman feels that if she is herself she will alienate others, it is just this psychic tension that is needed in order to make soul and to create change.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés , Women Who Run With the Wolves

“You can keep telling girls to be polite, to keep a level head and it’ll all work out in the end. But don’t be surprised when they figure out that you’ve been feeding them lies.”
― Lisa Lutz, The Swallows