Betty Dodson Quotes

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

There are some sick people in this world.

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

As a war must have generals, so must a plague.

More people in the world have died in such a short time of plague than has been heard or seen since the beginning of time …. Whoever touched the sick and dead was immediately infected and died …. That pestilence deprived of human inhabitants villages and cities so that there was scarcely found a man to dwell therein.

The spread of the disease is under control. What I worry about is the spread of fear of the disease is not under control.

Love and sex and whatever, they are - different. I could say I'm in love with someone who is 90 years old and teaches acting and lives in Ohio.

We are all precancerous.

The fact is that she was terribly undressed and I was extremely undressed too. The fact is that I still had my hand where she didn't have anything and she had hers where the same wasn't quite true of me. The fact is that I found myself underneath her and consequently she found herself on top of me.

When I think of 'influence', I think of 'influenza', like somebody's picked up a germ.

I wanna be your t-shirt when it's wet, I wanna be your shower when you sweat.

But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.

And that almost killed you?" "It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad germs got into it. Infection's the most dangerous thing there is, Tom. Infection was what made the superflu germ kill all the people. And infection is what made people want to make the germ in the first place. An infection of the mind.

Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you.

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull

Sex outdoors is great. I'm not an exhibitionist, but I love the possibility that people might be able to see.

All of our health is basically genetics.

I just want some head in a comfortable bed.

Reciprocating oral sex is, in general, a very good idea!

Sex pretty much cures everything.

What kind of guy goes to every city, has sex with every girl, then he goes and catches HIV.

When it comes to sex, at my age I like threesomes. In case one of us dies.

Insanity is catching.

The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.

I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag.