Betty Dodson on autonomy
Betty Dodson29 quotes“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.”
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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 DodsonBetty Dodson There are two types of pain: pain that hurts you and pain that changes you.
Brett HoebelBrett Hoebel The person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.
Betty DodsonBetty Dodson I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
Bobby FischerBobby Fischer 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 DodsonBetty Dodson I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible.
Billy CollinsBilly Collins It’s very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do.
Betty DodsonBetty Dodson 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 DodsonBetty 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 DodsonBetty Dodson 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 DodsonBetty Dodson A monogamous marriage and family is what some women want – but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway.
Betty DodsonBetty Dodson I consider myself a lesbian, but I’m a bisexual lesbian.
Betty DodsonBetty Dodson 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 DodsonBetty Dodson 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 DodsonBetty Dodson 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 DodsonBetty Dodson 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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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
Ludwig von MisesLudwig von Mises A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.
Emile DurkheimEmile Durkheim
