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 DODSONSacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That’s the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.
More Betty Dodson Quotes
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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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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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Vaginal penetration only doesn’t work for most of us. And we’re not all meant to be monogamous either, especially since women are capable of having far more sex than men. Try to get that fact across in America!
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Men are hung up on breasts. They’re looking at the titty dinner. It’s pathetic.
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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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I’m fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.
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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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Although my Dad was a talented calligrapher and both of my younger brothers were successful, I was the first one in my family to graduate from high school.
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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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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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The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.
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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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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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We are at war with men, and most women don’t even know it.
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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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