I consider myself a lesbian, but I’m a bisexual lesbian.
BETTY DODSONI consider myself a lesbian, but I’m a bisexual lesbian.
BETTY DODSONNot all women are going to get married, be monogamous and raise a family. It will destroy the current social structure based on a sexual double standard that we’re currently living under.
BETTY DODSONWe 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?
BETTY DODSONIt was easy to leave the art world after I found out that it was just another corporation. When they told me I had to create the same thing, I rebelled.
BETTY DODSONWomen 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.
BETTY DODSONI consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you’ll be fine.
BETTY DODSONMasturbation 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
BETTY DODSONMen are hung up on breasts. They’re looking at the titty dinner. It’s pathetic.
BETTY DODSONIt’s very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do.
BETTY DODSONA monogamous marriage and family is what some women want – but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway.
BETTY DODSONThe person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.
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!
BETTY DODSONI’m fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.
BETTY DODSONWe are at war with men, and most women don’t even know it.
BETTY DODSONThe powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.
BETTY DODSONThe 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 DODSON