Wendy C. Ortiz Quotes

• My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.

  Wendy C. Ortiz

  Mother, Writing, Complicated Relationship

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• I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.

  Wendy C. Ortiz

  Nonfiction, Imagine, Poet

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• I wish to be a cat. I like to imagine I was a cat in a past life.

  Wendy C. Ortiz

  Cat, Past, Wish

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• I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book.

  Wendy C. Ortiz

  Book

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• I imagine there's an undercurrent of the impact of early religious teachings and my break from what I was taught and expected to perform if I wanted to be considered normal in my family of origin.

  Wendy C. Ortiz

  Religious, Teaching, Impact

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• Overwhelm, panic, and wanting to flee were states of being in my everyday life as I tried to figure out life on my own, in the city I had grown up in, after an entire life made in Olympia, Washington for the eight years previous.

  Wendy C. Ortiz

  Years, Cities, Eight

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• The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available.

  Wendy C. Ortiz

  Mother, Comfort, Protection

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• I pay attention as much as I can. I try to surround myself with other women with magical powers and a lot falls under the heading "magical powers."

  Wendy C. Ortiz

  Fall, Trying, Pay

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• Synchronicities fall under the "magic" heading to me.

  Wendy C. Ortiz

  Fall, Magic, Synchronicity

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• To me, magic is everywhere.

  Wendy C. Ortiz

  Magic

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• Cats connote sexuality in standard dream dictionaries.

  Wendy C. Ortiz

  Dream, Cat, Sexuality

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