I consider myself a lesbian, but I’m a bisexual lesbian.
BETTY DODSONInstead of being a well-known painter, I became everybody’s favorite dirty joke. Come to think of it, teaching masturbation skills is pretty weird.
More Betty Dodson Quotes
-
-
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 -
We are at war with men, and most women don’t even know it.
BETTY DODSON -
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.
BETTY DODSON -
When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.
BETTY DODSON -
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 -
The first thing the male establishment wants to control is uterus and birth. You might call it womb envy. But even worse is the fact we are still using the male model of sexual response for women.
BETTY DODSON -
I did large drawings of couples having sex! Men and woman enjoying intercourse and oral sex in a Madison Avenue Gallery? That was the first time I broke a barrier that made me think, some idiot is going to blow my brains out for sure.
BETTY DODSON -
The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.
BETTY DODSON -
I’m fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.
BETTY DODSON -
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 -
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.
BETTY DODSON -
Not 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 DODSON -
The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.
BETTY DODSON -
I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes.
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






