The Smart Witch

Words of Wisdom: Reclaim

“The things that women reclaim are often their own voice, their own values, their imagination, their clairvoyance, their stories, their ancient memories. If we go for the deeper, and the darker, and the less known we will touch the bones.”

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Notes:

Clarissa Pinkola Estés (born 1945) is a first-generation American writer and Jungian psychoanalyst. She is the author of Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype. This book remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 145 weeks and has sold over two million copies.

[Image: The Meeting on the Turret Stairs (also Known as Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs)(1864) watercolor painting by Frederic William Burton, RHA (1816-1900). The subject of the painting is the love story of Hellelil, who fell in love with her personal guard Hildebrand. The story was taken from a medieval Danish ballad translated by the artist’s friend Whitley Stokes. The ballad was published in Fraser's Magazine, 1855, No. 1, page 89. National Gallery of Ireland.]

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