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
