“The memory is of our absolute, undeniable, and irrevocable kinship with the wild feminine, a relationship which may have become ghosty from neglect, buried by over-domestication, outlawed by the surrounding culture, or no longer understood anymore. We may have forgotten her names, we may not answer when she calls ours, but in our bones we know her, we yearn toward her; we know she belongs to us and we to her.”
-Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run With the Wolves
“The call of the wild is a call to the elemental levels of the soul, the places of intuition, kinship…”
— John O’Donohue, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace