“Holy Mother is Compassion personified. She is joy-centric and sorrow-mending… She appears to all. All. Like the sun shines on all. She appears to the wavering, the ragged, the wandering, the addicted, the heartbroken, the grieving, the tightrope walker, the leaper of chasms… the crosser of deserts, the heartfelt, the soulful, the child spirit. She appears to all who have eyes to see, ears to hear, spirits to sense, hearts to love… She is La Luchadora, our tag-team wrestler. She is the fierce Revolutionary who carries infinitely tender love. Thereby, she is ours and we are hers. We belong to her. She belongs to us… entirely.” -Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, from Untie the Strong Woman
