I’m fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.
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.
More Betty Dodson Quotes
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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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I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes.
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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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We are at war with men, and most women don’t even know it.
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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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A monogamous marriage and family is what some women want – but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway.
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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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I consider myself a lesbian, but I’m a bisexual lesbian.
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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 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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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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It’s very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do.
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Men are hung up on breasts. They’re looking at the titty dinner. It’s pathetic.
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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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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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