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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.

Betty Dodson

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Betty Dodson
Age: 91 †
Born: 1929
Born: August 24
Died: 2020
Died: October 31
Printmaker
Sex Educator
Visual Artist
Writer
Wichita
Kansas
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Sexual
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Suffering
Natural
Inhibited
Lives
Masturbation
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Damaged

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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. 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 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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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 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 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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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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The person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.
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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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Women who come to see me admit that they've never looked at their sex organ they've never seen their clitoris. Now tell me if that isn't a form of being psychologically genitally mutilated? For them, the clitoris doesn't exist, but we're worried about women in Africa!
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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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We are at war with men, and most women don't even know it.
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I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian.
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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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Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.
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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.
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