Petra Kelly Quotes

Gender equality is not only an issue for women and girls.

My feminism has evolved way beyond self-empowerment and I see feminism as a path to peace on earth. The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy. I do believe. As men and women, together, I really long to feel my society evolve its understanding since we're one of the leaders in the f-word. I want us to grow our idea of feminism collectively and get both men and women involved in undoing patriarchy. It's huge. It's a huge job.

We want to end gender inequality, and to do this, we need everyone involved...We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change and we don't just want to talk about it. We want to try and make sure that it's tangible.

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.

How can you talk about power to the people unless you realise the people is both sexes.

Gender equality must become a lived reality.

It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world.

I am glad that we are demonstrating in the United States to-day that the boy should have no more advantage than the girl.

Gender equality has a transformative effect that is essential to fully functioning communities, societies, and economies.

Knowledge is gender neutral, and hence the 21st century offers a great opportunity to level the gender inequity of the last thousand years in India.

For me, feminism is a movement for which the end goal is to make itself no longer needed.

What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.

Feminism is the best movement that's happened in the 21st century, and it benefits everyone.

We are in a world where men and women are on the same platform.

The days of a tennis champion as a gender rights leader are over.

Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.

No society can thrive when half its people are left behind.

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

I am still fully committed to male-female equality.

Ideally there should not be a men's movement but a gender transition movement; only the power of the women's movement necessitates the temporary corrective of a men's movement. And this creates a special challenge for men: There are few political movements filled with healthy people, yet few healthy changes have occurred without political movements.

I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.