The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I’m a feminist and I think I’ve done a lot of good.
BETTY DODSONWhen I found out after that first successful exhibition that the gallery wanted me to do another show like the first one, I come out two years later with four 6-foot drawings of classical nudes masturbating. The gallery director flipped the freak out!
More Betty Dodson Quotes
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We all have our individual romantic or idealistic ideas. To get information that masturbation is our basic form of sex is hard, because who wants to admit they’re masturbating?
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It’s just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.
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The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.
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We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it’s a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.
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Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions, and confusion about sex and pleasure, I recommend an intense love affair with yourself
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Because orgasmic sex would lead to women’s autonomy, knowing who you are and what we want: Women are not going to follow what some jackass tells us we must do.
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Instead of being a well-known painter, I became everybody’s favorite dirty joke. Come to think of it, teaching masturbation skills is pretty weird.
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The clitoris is the female sex organ, and the fact that we aren’t told that when we were small children is devastating. We grow up with no information about the pleasure center of our body.
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Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that’s inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives.
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The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.
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Men are hung up on breasts. They’re looking at the titty dinner. It’s pathetic.
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The person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.
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I’m fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.
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If you tell a child “Don’t touch yourself there,” they will deal with some kind of sexual problem from then on, to one degree or other.
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Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That’s the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.
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