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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.

Betty Dodson

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
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 DODSON

Dirty Teaching Thinking
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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Sex Thinking Views
The person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.
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Faces Legs Persons
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.
BETTY DODSON

Envy Males Uterus
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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Media Thinking Views
I’m fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.
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Art Respected Rich
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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Children Growing Up Sex
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
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.
BETTY DODSON

Children Degrees Kind
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
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
Men are hung up on breasts. They’re looking at the titty dinner. It’s pathetic.
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Breasts Dinner Men
It’s very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do.
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Men Sex Smart
I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes.
BETTY DODSON

Sex Thinking War
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.
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Firsts Natural Suffering

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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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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