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 DODSONIt 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.
More Betty Dodson Quotes
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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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I’m fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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The person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.
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I consider myself a lesbian, but I’m a bisexual lesbian.
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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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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 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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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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