“Addiction begins when a woman loses her handmade and meaningful life and become fixated upon retrieving anything that resembles it in any way she can. Loss of a power of discrimination…willing to take a deadly substitute"
“It may also be that a woman’s creative process is misunderstood or disrespected by those around her. It is up to her to inform them that when she has “that look” in her eyes, it does not mean she is a vacant lot waiting to be filled. It means she is balancing a big cardhouse of ideas on a single finger tip, and she is carefully connecting all the cards using tiny crystalline bones and a little spit, and if she can just get it all to a table without it falling down or flying apart, she can bring an image from the unseen world into being. To speak to her in that moment is to create a harpy wind that blows the entire structure to tatters. To speak to her in that moment is to break her heart.
"Women Who Run With the Wolves"
[Written by Clarissa Pinkola-Estes]
