Betty Dodson Quotes - Page 2

It's just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.

We are at war with men, and most women don't even know it.

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!

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.

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.

I'm fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.

Women don't run around saying, "Oh, I took a Bodysex workshop, and I had so much fun, and Betty Dodson taught us how to blah blah." They come, they go, and I rarely hear from them again.

The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.

I had very little support from any feminist organization. But fortunately my post-marital lover, who had bailed out of academia over political in-fighting, was a one-man support team. He was the one who pushed me to write.

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.

I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes.

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.