Wendy C. Ortiz quotes
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“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 Quotes #Writing Quotes #Complicated Relationship Quotes
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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.”
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“I wish to be a cat. I like to imagine I was a cat in a past life.”
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“I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the 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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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."”
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“Synchronicities fall under the "magic" heading to me.”
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“Cats connote sexuality in standard dream dictionaries.”
-- Wendy C. Ortiz
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