“There was a serious piece of advice given by the very old people in our family. It was that every child ought to know twelve complete stories before that child was twelve years old.
Those twelve tales were to be a group of heroic stories that covered a spectrum—of both the beautiful and the hellacious—from life long loves and loyalties, to descents, threats, and deaths, with rebirth ever affirmed.
No matter how much “much” a person might otherwise possess, they were seen as poor—and worse, as imperiled—if they did not know stories they could turn to for advice, throughout and till the very end of life.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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