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“That is, to be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

tags: authentic, compliance, exiled, wild-woman, women-who-run-with-wolves

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“How the dead must cringe at our resistance to look as if we've lived.”
― Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

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“For now just remember how you felt the day you were born: desperate for magic, ready to love.”
― Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman

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“But happiness is a liar, for it makes us believe it will last forever, when it never does.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

tags: happiness

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“Many of us have lived desert lives: very small on the surface, and enormous under the ground.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

tags: desert-life, women-who-run-with-wolves

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