NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Book club pick for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf • "A deeply
spiritual book [that] honors what is tough smart and untamed in women."-The Washington Post
Book World Within every woman there lives a powerful force filled with good instincts
passionate creativity and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman who represents the
instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. For though the gifts of wildish
nature belong to us at birth society's attempt to "civilize" us into rigid roles has muffled
the deep life-giving messages of our own souls. In Women Who Run with the Wolves Dr.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths fairy tales folk tales and stories
many from her own traditions in order to help women reconnect with the fierce healthy
visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this
remarkable book we retrieve examine love and understand the Wild Woman and hold her
against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr. Estés has created a new
lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving it is a psychology of women
in the truest sense a knowing of the soul. Praise for Women Who Run with the Wolves "Women
Who Run with the Wolves isn't just another book. It is a gift of profound insight wisdom and
love. An oracle from one who knows."-Alice Walker "I am grateful to Women Who Run with the
Wolves and to Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés. The work shows the reader how glorious it is to be
daring to be caring and to be women. Everyone who can read should read this book."-Maya
Angelou "An inspiring book the 'vitamins for the soul' [for] women who are cut off from their
intuitive nature."-San Francisco Chronicle "Stands out from the pack . . . a joy and sparkle
in [the] prose . . . This book will become a bible for women interested in doing deep work. . .
. It is a road map of all the pitfalls those familiar and those horrifically unexpected that
a woman encounters on the way back to her instinctual self. Wolves . . . is a gift."-Los
Angeles Times "A mesmerizing voice . . . dramatic storytelling she learned at the knees of
her [immigrant] aunts."-Newsweek "The work of Clarissa Pinkola Estés rooted in old and deep
family rites and in archetypal psychology recognizes that the soul is not lost but has been
put to sleep. This volume reminds us that we are nature for all our sophistication that we are
still wild and the recovery of that vitality will itself set us right in the world."-Thomas
Moore author of Care of the Soul
