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 DODSONIt’s very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do.
More Betty Dodson Quotes
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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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The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.
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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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Men are hung up on breasts. They’re looking at the titty dinner. It’s pathetic.
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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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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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Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That’s the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.
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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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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.
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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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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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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 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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I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you’ll be fine.
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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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