The end of “nice”
May 27, 2010
Cheers to the wild Self. Imbibe. Whatever you do this weekend, do not “be nice”.
Side note: My week felt like this frizzle of a doll.
“I’ll tell you right now, the doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.
…The early training to ‘be nice’ causes women to override their intuitions. In that sense, they are actually purposefully taught to submit to the predator. Imagine a wolf mother teaching her young to ‘be nice’ in the face of an angry ferret or a wily diamondback rattler.”
-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD, Women Who Run With the Wolves
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