10 powerful quotes from Women who run with the wolves
Updated: Sep 26
Edited: Nov 25, 2025
Hello! I’m Naïma, a professional Fine Artist based in the south of France. I create paintings inspired by the wild feminine energy.
To my fellow adventurous women, I share your spirit...
Upon encountering Clarissa Pinkola Estés' s book "Women who run with the wolves," a whole new realm unfolded before me.
This book has become a staple for many of us, resting on our bedside tables. I thoroughly enjoy delving into the tales, each time feeling a fresh awakening of something profound within me.
I have chosen to share with you 10 impactful quotes from the book "Women who run with the wolves" by Clarissa Pinkola Estés that have resonated with me.
All quotes are from Women Who Run With the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, used with respect and for inspirational purposes.
1: "There is no greater blessing a mother can give her daughter than a reliable sense of the veracity of her own intuition." Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women who run with the wolves
2: "Rather than defining intuition as some unreasoned faulty quirk, intuition is defined as truly soul-voice speaking". Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women who run with the wolves
The archetype of the Wild Woman
As in all art, she resides in the guts, not in the head.
3: "She is intuitive, typical, and normative. She is utterly essential to women's mental and soul health." Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women who run with the wolves
Reconnecting to our Wild SELF
4: "When we are connected to the instinctual self, to the soul of the feminine which is natural and wild, then instead of looking over whatever happens to be on display, we say to ourselves, "what am I hungry for?".
Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women who run with the wolves
5: "The wildish woman is, by nature, intense and talented". Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women who run with the wolves
6: "The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to soul-place."
Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women who run with the wolves
I created for you a special guide inspired by my own creative process whenever I feel blocked, loss or just not inspired, it happens to all of us artists, but to me it is also like a healing practice to create art and so hopefully this speaks to you!
Returning, going back to your home.
7: "Home is where a thought or feeling can be sustained instead of being interrupted or torn away from us because something is demanding our time and attention. Although there are many physical places one can go to "feel" her way back to this special home, the physical place itself is not home; it is only the vehicule that rocks the ego to sleep so that we can go to rest of the way by ourselves." Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women who run with the wolves
The vehicules are many: music, art, forest, ocean spume, sunrise, solitude...These takes us home to a. nutritive world...
8: "Home is the pristine instinctual life that works as easily as a joint sliding upon its greased bearing, where all is as itshould be, where all noises sounds right, and the light is good and the smell makes us feel calm rather than. alarmed. Whatever revivifies balance is what is essential. That is home."
Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women who run with the wolves
The practice of Intentional Solitude
9: "To converse with the wild feminine, a woman must temporarily leave the world and inhabit a state of aloneness in the oldest sense of the word."
Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women who run with the wolves
10: "Solitude is not the absence of energy or action but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul."
Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women who run with the wolves
I hope you enjoyed reading these quotes which everytime I read, inspires me for my art and in my life.
I invite you to explore my website, where you can discover more of my artwork and my journey. You’ll find original paintings available (worldwide shipping from France), fine art prints, canvas prints, and lifestyle products created from my art — all inspired by the wild, untamed feminine spirit.
Stay Wild! Naïma
About the Artist
Naima Namaste is a French contemporary artist whose original paintings explore the profound relationship between women, nature and the wild. Inspired by symbolism, intuition and the beauty of the natural world, she creates soulful, collectible artworks that invite moments of reflection, connection and wonder. Every painting is created by hand in her atelier in the south of France.
