Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Wendy C. Ortiz

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American essayist Wendy C. Ortiz.

Last updated on April 18, 2025.

Wendy C. Ortiz is an American essayist, creative nonfiction writer, fiction writer, psychotherapist, and poet.

American - Essayist | Born: May 16, 1973

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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

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

Wendy C. Ortiz

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

Cats connote sexuality in standard dream dictionaries.

Wendy C. Ortiz

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

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

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

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

Wendy C. Ortiz

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

Synchronicities fall under the "magic" heading to me.

Wendy C. Ortiz

To me, magic is everywhere.

Wendy C. Ortiz

Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Wendy C. Ortiz

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