Catherine Jinks Quotes

My husband is a feminist!

Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

I have an amazing education through my wife on female fans and perspectives on it. Things that I never would have thought of.

I remember being called 'feminazi' and all that. I'm so proud of these young women who are coming out and not afraid to say they are feminists.

I have been married twice, but both of my wives have been too bright to be sucked in by women's lib.

I would say there have been different stages of my feminist awakening. The more layers you peel back and the more things you're made aware of, you're like, "Oh my God."

Young girls getting into feminism.

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.

Feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process...

Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission I had to get was my husband's.

I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the twentieth century. This period of conflict will cease only when woman within and out of marriage shall have received legal equality with man.

People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.

I love women.

I'm sure a few marriages broke up because of feminism; it doesn't make feminism a cult.

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed to her own development.