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 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.
More Betty Dodson Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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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?
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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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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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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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The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.
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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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If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex.
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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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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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The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.
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