She is often the broken-winged one, who does everything all wrong until people realize she's been doing it... pretty right all along. She's the poor … - Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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She is often the broken-winged one, who does everything all wrong until people realize she's been doing it... pretty right all along. She's the poor girl who never dressed right, who had torn hose, and they were all baggy around her ankles. She's the Raggedy Ann of the sophisticated world, who pulls it out at the last minute, flies by the seat of her pants, cackling all the way home. She is the late bloomer, the late start, the autumn bush, the winter holly. She is Baubo, all the classical Greek goddesses. She is the old girl who still blushes, and laughs, and dances. She's the truth teller, maybe that people hate to hear, but they learn to listen to. She is not dumb and in some ways is not shrewd. She works on passion, and the doll in her pocket, and the intuition that leads her into and through all the world.

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About Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Clarissa Pinkola Estés (born January 27, 1945) is a first-generation American writer and Jungian psychoanalyst. She is the author of Women Who Run with the Wolves (1992), which remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 145 weeks and has sold over two million copies.

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"إذن ما هي "المرأة الوحشية"؟ من وجهةنظر علم النفس المبدئية وفي عرف الروائيين, هي روح الأنثى, بل أكثر من ذلك, هي مصدر الأنوثة, إنها كل ما هو فطري في كلا العالمين الظاهر والباطن، إنها الأساس، فنحن جميعاً نأخذ منها الخلية النشطة التي تحوي كل الغرائز والمعارف التي نحتاج إليها في رحلة الحياة."

An artist is an artist before they have ever produced a single thing. The production of something is not what makes a body an artist. It is the soul that makes an artist, the core of the psyche that fills the person, the creative fire inside a person that make them an artist. And if that person has the soul of an artist, that is they have the burning as each and every individual does, then they are an artist, they are entitled to the title artist, we are all entitled to the title artist before we have produced one single thing

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