Leandra Medine Quotes

I think that there's this idea - especially for male readers, but female readers as well, because we're all indoctrinated, right? - where there's this idea that if a woman is tough, it can only be in a way that is still sexy.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.

I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be.

Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.

Well, I think mostly we're dressing for men.

I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.

I'm not a type of feminist who is afraid to be sexy.

I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist. But it doesn't worry me personally all that much.

Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Being a woman has always been a powerful thing, where history has sometimes dictated otherwise, but I believe that a woman can be compassionate, sensitive, soft, kind.

I don't agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn't embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.

I think women are very attractive.

Being a woman means everything to me.

Most times, women are seen through the male gaze, so they are often shown as housewives, girlfriends, or objects of desire.

For me, the male gaze is oppressive. And I hope if we are building a female gaze that it's inclusive, and it's about pure desire and not how I want people to look in order for them to be desired by me.

Beauty pageants in general are foreign and noxious to me: I can barely muster the energy to put on lip gloss and mascara.

And she's feeling like her worth is between her legs.

I want women to be the subject, not the object.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

Women should look good. Work on yourselves. Education? I spit on education. No man is ever going to put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.

We women should remember that we are much more than just breasts.

The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.

A man fishes for two reasons: he’s either sport fishing or fishing to eat, which means he’s either going to try to catch the biggest fish he can, take a picture of it, admire it with his buddies and toss it back to sea, or he’s going to take that fish on home, scale it, fillet it, toss it in some cornmeal, fry it up, and put it on his plate. This, I think, is a great analogy for how men seek out women.

Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.