Woman Who Run With the Wolves: La vidacita

We have to leave the chorus of detractors and plunge into the woods. There is no way to both stay and go. Women who try to make their deeper feelings invisible are deadening themselves. The fire goes out.

There is no greater blessing a mother can give her daughter than a reliable sense of the veracity of her intuition.

Women must bind, test, and feed the intuition. We strengthen our bond with our intuitive nature by listening inwardly at every turn in the road. "Should I go this way or that? Should I stay or go? Should I resist or be flexible? Should I run away or toward? Is this person, event, venture, true or false?"

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So, what is the solution? Do as the duckling does. Go ahead, struggle through it. Pick up the pen already and put it to the page and stop whining. Write. Pick up the brush and paint. Dancers, put on the loose chemise, tie the ribbons in your hair, at your waist, or on your ankles and tell the body to take it from there. Dance. Actress, playwright, poet, musician, or any other. Don't say one more word unless you are a singer. Shut yourself in a room with a ceiling, or in a clearing under the sky. Do your art. Generally, a thing cannot freeze if it is moving. So move. Keep moving.  

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Woman Who Run With the Wolves