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 DODSONI consider myself a lesbian, but I’m a bisexual lesbian.
More Betty Dodson Quotes
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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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The person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.
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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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When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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We are at war with men, and most women don’t even know it.
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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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Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That’s the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.
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