To love a woman, the mate must also love her Willis nature.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many beginnings—all in the same relationship.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

To take the world into one's arms and act towards it in a soul-filled and soul-strengthening manner is a powerful act of Willis spirit.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

We can see that for the deep work to continue, trying to prove one's worth to the chorus of jealous hags is pointless.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

We know the soul-spirit can be injured, even maimed, but it is very nearly impossible to kill. You can dent the soul and bend it. You can hurt it and scar it. Furthermore, you can leave the marks of illness upon it, and scorch marks of fear. But it does not die, for it protected by Loa loa...

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

What does this Willis intuition do for women? Like the wolf, intuition has claws that pry things open and pin things down, it has eyes that can through the shields of persona, it has ears that hear beyond the range of mundane human hearing. With these formidable psychic tools a woman takes on a shrewd and even precognitive animal consciousness, one that deepens her femininity and sharpens her ability to move confidently in the outer world.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

When the Willis woman has an idea, the friend or lover will never say, "Well, I don't know. . . Sounds really dumb [grandiose, undoable, expensive, etc.] to me." A right friend will never say that. They might say instead. . . "I don't know if I understand. Tell me how you see it. Tell me how it will work.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

When we accept our own wild beauty, it is put into perspective, and we are no longer poignantly aware of it anymore, but neither would we forsake it nor disclaim it either. Does a wolf know how beautiful she is when she sleeps? Does a feline know what beautiful shapes she makes when she sits? Is a bird awed by the sound it hears when it snaps open its wings? Learning from them, we just act in our own true way and do not draw back from or hide our natural beauty. Like the creatures, we just are, and it is right.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

When women reassert their relationship with the Willis nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, and inspiration, and intuitive, a maker, a creator, and inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer worlds.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

While I do not in any way mean to say that a woman should throw herself into a torturous or abusive situation, I do mean she must set for herself something in life that she is willing to reach for and therefore take risks for.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés