“If you have attempted to fit whatever mold and failed to do so, you are probably lucky. You may be an exile of some sort, but you have sheltered your soul.”
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
“The city is full of accidental revelation, half-heard cries for help, and strangers who will tell you everything at the first suspicion of sympathy,”
― Collected Stories
― Collected Stories
“The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life; hold on, for the promise from the wild nature is this: after winter, spring always comes.”
― Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
― Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
“Home is a sustained mood or sense that allows us to experience feelings not necessarily sustained in the mundane world: wonder, vision, peace, freedom from worry, freedom from demands, freedom from constant clacking. All these treasures from home are meant to be cached in the psyche for later use in the topside world.”
― Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
― Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
“Nothing makes the light, the wonder, the treasure stand out so well as darkness.”
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
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