Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.

I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock at the door of the deep feminine psyche. Llamar o tocar a la puerta means literally to play upon the instrument of the name in order to open a door. It means using words that summon up the opening of a passageway. No matter by which culture a woman is influenced, she understands the words wild and woman, intuitively.

If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.

Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

So, let us push on now, and remember ourselves back to the wild soul. Let us sing her flesh back onto our bones.

All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time.