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Clarissa Pinkola Estes [1945-0] American

Rank: 102
Poet

Clarissa Pinkola Estés is an American poet, Jungian psychoanalyst, post-trauma recovery specialist, author and spoken word artist.

Age, Anger, Forgiveness, Hope, Knowledge, Relationship, Strength, Work

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I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.	Hope, Work	101
This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.		102
We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our endurance and efforts to help others.		103
If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.		104
How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.	Forgiveness	105
Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.	Strength	106
I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.	Age	107
I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body.		108
Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many forms, appears only in orderly ways that are beauteous and picturesque, or that the mystical appears only in completely silent ways. All are true. Except for the 'only' part.	Knowledge	109
Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart.		110
When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.	Relationship	111
The soul has no gender.		112
If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants.		113
Any time I find medicine that's helpful, I share it with everyone I know.		114
No Latina woman would be called 'Ms.' - that's an invention of middle-class Anglo women. Latina women are proud to be called 'Mrs.' That simply means that we have a family.		115
When you feel bad, find a person to talk to and cry with, to tell of your anger and other helpless feelings.	Anger	116

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