Clarissa Pincola Estes – Women Who Run With The Wolves – Myths And Storie by the Wild Woman Archetype

Now their end-of-the-day fatigue comes from satisfying work and endeavors, not from being shut up in too small a mindset, job, or relationship. They know instinctively when things must die and when things must live; they know how to walk away, they know how to stay.

This early training to “be nice” causes women to override their intuitions. In that sense, they are actually purposefully taught to submit to the predator.

Stories are medicine.