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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

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

College Luck Sorority
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

Successful Two Years
I’m fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.
BETTY DODSON

Art Respected Rich
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

Autonomy Currently Going Standard Women
The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.
BETTY DODSON

Abortion Feminism Hero
I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes.
BETTY DODSON

Sex Thinking War
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

Double Knowing Sex Standard
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
BETTY DODSON

Bad Confusion Images Self Sex
Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That’s the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.
BETTY DODSON

Century Female Sacrifice
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

Art Corporations World
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.
BETTY DODSON

People Sex Talking
The person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.
BETTY DODSON

Faces Legs Persons
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.
BETTY DODSON

Media Thinking Views
I consider myself a lesbian, but I’m a bisexual lesbian.
BETTY DODSON

Bisexual Consider Lesbian
A monogamous marriage and family is what some women want – but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway.
BETTY DODSON

Family Marriage Monogamy Want
When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.
BETTY DODSON

Cutting Honesty People

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.

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