"Over time, we have seen the feminine instinctive nature looted, driven back, and overbuilt. For long periods it has been mismanaged like the wildlife and the wildlands.

For several thousand years, as soon and as often as we turn our backs, it is relegated to the poorest land in the psyche. The spiritual lands of the Wild Woman have, throughout history, been plundered or burnt, dens bulldozed, and natural cycles forced into unnatural rhythms to please others. It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild natures fades... It is not so coincidental that wolves and coyotes, bears and wildish women have similar reputations. They all share related instinctual archetypes, and as such, both are erroneously reputed to be ingracious, wholly and innately dangerous, and ravenous... the spiritual lacerations of profoundly exploited women are often referred to as 'nervous breakdowns, girls and women who are tightly girdled, tightly reined, and tightly muzzled are called 'nice,' and those other females who manage to slip the collar for a moment or two of life are branded 'bad. Through the personification in the Wild Woman archetype we are able to discern the ways and means of woman's deepest nature. The old knowing is long overdue. There is something in the wild soul that will not let us subsist forever on piecemeal intake. Because in actuality, it is impossible for the woman who strives for consciousness to sneak little sniffs of good air and then be content with no more." - Clarissa Pinkola Este’s.