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.
BETTY DODSONWe are at war with men, and most women don’t even know it.
More Betty Dodson Quotes
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When 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!
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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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We are at war with men, and most women don’t even know it.
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I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes.
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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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It’s very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do.
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I consider myself a lesbian, but I’m a bisexual lesbian.
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Women don’t run around saying, “Oh, I took a Bodysex workshop, and I had so much fun, and Betty Dodson taught us how to blah blah.” They come, they go, and I rarely hear from them again.
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Although my Dad was a talented calligrapher and both of my younger brothers were successful, I was the first one in my family to graduate from high school.
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If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex.
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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 person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.
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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.
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The galleries are simply corporations in the art world – “Here’s a million dollars for this latest piece of crap” – but I’m not about to go along with the gallery system.
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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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