Women Who Run with the Wolves

Discover the depth and latent power within the female spirit through "Women Who Run with the Wolves," a book chosen for Emma Watson’s book club, Our Shared Shelf. This profound work expresses the inner strength found in every woman and explores the instinctual and creative nature that defines femininity.

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés presents a rich collection of intercultural myths, fairy tales, and folk stories from various traditions, aimed at helping women reconnect with their wild, creative selves. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we reclaim, understand, and embrace the wild woman within, revealing her as both magic and medicine.

Book club pick for Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf

Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. For though the gifts of wildish nature belong to us at birth, society’s attempt to “civilize” us into rigid roles has muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls.

In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, many from her own traditions, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine.

Dr. Estés has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.