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I’m fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.

Betty Dodson

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!
BETTY DODSON

Successful Two Years
I used to think masturbation was not really sex because it only involved me. That’s a very limited view of human sexuality, and it isn’t going to work for women.
BETTY DODSON

Sex Thinking Views
We are at war with men, and most women don’t even know it.
BETTY DODSON

Knows Men War
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.
BETTY DODSON

Dating Girlfriend Men
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.
BETTY DODSON

Firsts Natural Suffering
It’s just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.
BETTY DODSON

College Luck Sorority
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.
BETTY DODSON

Fun Running Taught
I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes.
BETTY DODSON

Sex Thinking War
The person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.
BETTY DODSON

Faces Legs Persons
It 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 DODSON

Art Corporations World
I consider myself a lesbian, but I’m a bisexual lesbian.
BETTY DODSON

Bisexual Consider Lesbian
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 DODSON

Dirty Teaching Thinking
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.
BETTY DODSON

Brother Dad School
The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.
BETTY DODSON

Abortion Feminism Hero
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?
BETTY DODSON

Ideas Sex Want
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.
BETTY DODSON

Art Dollars Pieces

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