To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in… - Clarissa Pinkola Estés

What is that which can never die It is that faithful force that is born into us that one that is greater than us that calls new seed to the open and battered and barren places so that we can be resown. It is this force in its insistence in its loyalty to us in its love of us in its most often mysterious ways that is far greater far more majestic and far more ancient than any heretofore ever known.

When a creature is exposed to violence, it will tend to adapt to that disturbance, so that when the violence ceases or the creature is allowed its freedom, the healthy instinct to flee is hugely diminished, and the creature stays put instead.

المرأة الوحشية هي التي تتجرأ وتبدع وهي التي تدمر. إنها الروح البدائية والخلاقة التي تجعل من كل الأعمال الإبداعية والفنون شيئاً ممكناً. إنها تخلق غابة حولنا, ونحن نبدأ في التعامل مع الحياة من هذا المنظور الجديد والأصيل.