Women Who Run with the Wolves

Storyteller and Jungian analyst Clarissa Pinkola Estés argues that every woman carries an instinctual nature she calls the Wild Woman, and that social pressure toward rigid roles has muffled it. To help women reconnect with it, she retells myths, fairy tales and folk tales from many cultures, chosen over more than twenty years of research, with commentary on the archetypal motifs in each. The stories came from her family, her travels and her patients. One is La Loba, a wolf woman who gathers bones in the desert. The book grew out of her popular audiotapes and held a place among New York Times best sellers for 145 weeks, a record at the time.

Emma Watson listed it on the read shelf of Our Shared Shelf on Goodreads. It also appears among the books hostel co-founder Irina Botnari named in an interview about her reading.