'Wild At Heart'

Clarissa Pinkola Estés spent years collecting folk stories from women across cultures — La Llorona, Bluebeard, the Skeleton Woman, the Red Shoes — and found the same story encoded everywhere: a woman who begins in possession of her wild, instinctual self; loses it through domestication, compliance, or captivity; and must find the way back. Women Who Run With the Wolves is not a self-help book. It is a field guide for the reclamation of the self that was there before the world had opinions about it.

The wild woman is not feral. She is simply not tame. She knows the difference between what she was told to want and what she actually wants. She does not perform. She does not explain herself to rooms that haven't earned an explanation. She runs where she needs to run. She is wild at heart, which is the same as saying she is honest at heart.

This is for the woman who is done being tame.