The Strength of Women

And the value of knowledge.

Louise Camille Fenne

′′ Jung pointed out that, in the female psyche, there is a ‘natural spirit’, a kind of fearlessness but also of concreteness that man lacks and which, if it is integrated, can be of great value. A patient Jung had been in analysis for a long time said to him once: ′′ I feel pretty good, nothing particular happens to me; but sometimes I feel that something is wrong with me. But I don’t understand what.” To which Jung replied: ′′ I don’t know what to say; you try to ask a woman. Women often sense things men don’t. ′′

— Marie Louise von Franz

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Loving oneself is no easy matter just because it means loving all of oneself, including the shadow where one is inferior and socially so unacceptable. The care one gives this humiliating part is also the cure.”

— James Hillman

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“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.”