Wendy C. Ortiz famous quotes

03-26-2025

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
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
I wish to be a cat. I like to imagine I was a cat in a past life.
-- Wendy C. Ortiz

#Cat #Past #Wish
I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book.
-- Wendy C. Ortiz

#Book
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
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
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
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
Synchronicities fall under the "magic" heading to me.
-- Wendy C. Ortiz

#Fall #Magic #Synchronicity
To me, magic is everywhere.
-- Wendy C. Ortiz

#Magic
Cats connote sexuality in standard dream dictionaries.
-- Wendy C. Ortiz

#Dream #Cat #Sexuality

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