Dodson Quotes & Sayings

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

Isaiah told him what he'd found on the Ruby's Real Beauty website. Ruby's stocked the largest, most complete inventory of human hair extensions in the South Bay area. The most highly prized were Virgin Remy. "Virgin because the girl still had her cherry?" Dodson said. "No. Virgin because the hair wasn't chemically treated," Isaiah said. "What's Remy mean?" "It means the hair was carefully cut so the cuticles and roots stayed in the same direction. Otherwise, they mow it down like weeds and throw it in a bin." Isaiah — Joe Ide

Still, without faithfulness of heart there is little value in all the rest. — DeAnna Julie Dodson

It is impossible to be hurt by someone you love contrary to popular belief. Only something or someone you fear can hurt you. — Frederick Dodson

It's never too late for fatalism. — Zachary Thomas Dodson

Some people, in working towards a goal, find themselves seized by inertia when it comes time for action. If this should happen to you, despite the small graduated steps, then it is time to re-examine your goal. Consider how important it actually is and then either discard the goal and replace it with more suitable one or continue the steps with a renewed sense of the value of achieving it. — Fitzhugh Dodson

First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy. — Fitzhugh Dodson

I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian. — Betty Dodson

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

For Indigenous peoples , the impact of separating us from our heritage goes directly to the heart that pumps life through our peoples. To expect a people to be able to enjoy their culture without their cultural heritage and their sacred belongings is equivalent to amputating their legs and digging up the ground and asking them to run a marathon. — Mick Dodson

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty. — 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

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

Amazement + Gratitude + Openness + Appreciation = an irresistible field of energy — Frederick Dodson

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! — Betty Dodson

Want what you have, and then you can have what you want. — Frederick Dodson

Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now. — Frederick Dodson

We have much to contribute to the world; ways of knowing and being that are going to be essential to everyone's survival on our planet. As true citizens of Australia, properly acknowledged in our constitution, we can look forward not only to improving our own lot, but helping Australia contribute to the well-being of all the world's peoples. — Patrick Dodson

Books are a great equalizer. You may not have the money to travel the world, but with a library card as your passport your horizons for exploration and self-discovery are unlimited. — Shireen Dodson

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! — Betty Dodson

The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control. — Betty Dodson

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

In a climate of uncertainty and fear, without strong and visionary leadership, people panic. — Patrick Dodson

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries. — Betty Dodson

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

Shift your attention, and your emotion shifts. Shift your emotion, and your attention shifts. — Frederick Dodson

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

Thinking is not a thing that can undo itself. It can never be its own solution. — Zachary Thomas Dodson

Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions, and confusion about sex and pleasure, I recommend an intense love affair with yourself — Betty Dodson

Florence Dodson was murdered the same night that Claire Guthrie shot her husband. For me, the story began with Claire, and I put Mrs. Dodson on the back burner in my mind. That turned out to be a mistake. — Judy Alter

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. — Betty Dodson

It's very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do. — Betty Dodson

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? — Betty Dodson

The person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw. — Betty Dodson

A monogamous marriage and family is what some women want - but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway. — Betty Dodson

Truth is not a path you follow, but one created by your footsteps. — Frederick Dodson

Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when leadership is needed, its lack is sorely felt. — Patrick Dodson

Art actually happens somewhere in the space between clarity and ambiguity, concept and intuition, thought and feeling. — Bert Dodson

We need relationships that are so shaped by the gospel that we will exhort and encourage one another to trust Jesus every single day. We need gospel-centered discipleship. — Jonathan K. Dodson

Angela Dodson: Well, this has been real educational, but... I don't believe in the devil.

John Constantine: You should... He believes in you. — Constantine

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. — Betty Dodson

It's our landscape which defines our identity and it's what I'm most grateful for. — Mick Dodson

None of us need ever fear that we don't have an active imagination, because imagination is mostly a willingness to entertain a strange idea now and then. — Bert Dodson

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

Don't even leap to actions and decisions before you've found that sense of natural calm, well-being, or enthusiasm. — Frederick Dodson

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

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. — Betty Dodson

Social justice is what faces you in the morning. It is awakening in a house with adequate water supply, cooking facilities and sanitation. It is the ability to nourish your children and send them to school where their education not only equips them for employment but reinforces their knowledge and understanding of their cultural inheritance. It is the prospect of genuine employment and good health: a life of choices and opportunity, free from discrimination. — Mick Dodson

You cannot replace negative beliefs with positive ones you can't believe- positive ones that are too ambitious. you must find and choose a thought that allows you to feel relief. — Frederick Dodson

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. — Betty Dodson

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

Enclosed within the tyranny of our minds and there is where we are lost. — Robert Dodson

In this role my wish is to build our understanding of what it means to protect the rights and human dignity of all Australians. Upholding human rights is about looking out for each other, taking the idea of fairness seriously. And it goes to the heart of who we are as a nation. — Mick Dodson

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. — Betty Dodson

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. — Betty Dodson

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. — Betty Dodson

These Australians hear the whispering in their heart and know it can only be silenced by coming to terms with the original owners of this beautiful and bounteous land. Many Australians of goodwill sense that a moment for national leadership has slipped past us and is gone. — Patrick Dodson

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

For Aboriginal leaders, the social and moral obligation that comes with community leadership is life-long. Those who lead, who have authority, must care for and look after those who come behind. — Patrick Dodson

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. — Betty Dodson

We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend. — Betty Dodson

...I do write books that are female oriented. In my books, the female characters are always searching for something and they often find it, and what they find is themselves and their own strength. I want girls to understand there has been a long history of strong women... Women have always been oppressed but managed to see their own way, and there is a long tradition of females doing what they want to do, and that's what girls can do. They can have selves of their own, a definition of themselves.'" ~Virginia Hamilton in Shireen Dodson's the Mother-Daughter Book Club — Shireen Dodson

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 Dodson

Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic. — Betty Dodson

The real power is not corporate; it is private. They choose not to have a name. It is a dynasty of banking families - Rothschild and Rockefeller being two - that operate chiefly out of London, in the boardrooms out of the city of London and the Bank of England, which they own. — Betty Dodson

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. — Betty Dodson

Goals that are not written down are just wishes. — Fitzhugh Dodson

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

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination. — Fitzhugh Dodson

Art is all about becoming a name, a brand; it isn't based on talent or creativity. — Betty Dodson

I believe that most of us, students and artists alike, ought to concern ourselves less with what we think is the right way to draw and more with letting our feelings flow through our hand. In this way, we stretch our dynamic nature. Our larger goal should be to draw in a way that expresses our vision. — Bert Dodson

Well-being is not the goal; it is the starting point. this is yet another realization that could change everything dramatically. it might be a concept you'd like to remind yourself of every now and then. — Frederick Dodson

PERFECTION, OF COURSE, is a cruel god. It requires the kind of absolute devotion and daily sacrifice that is the sworn enemy of personal emotion and intimacy with others, even - and maybe especially - one's loyal ladywife. — James Dodson

An emotion does not cause pain. Resistance or suppression of emotion causes pain. — Frederick Dodson

There are enough ideas, images, symbols, and experiences in your head already to work with for a lifetime. It's a little like having a car with an unpredictable battery, though. Sometimes you get in and it starts right up. Other times, especially if it has been sitting idle for awhile, you turn the key and nothing happens. — Bert Dodson

It is my opinion that enjoying yourself in the present and loosening your definition of time slows the aging process. — Frederick Dodson