Leandra Medine Quotes

I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

I'm all for making a woman-empowering song. I get that, and I think that's dope. I've got a daughter, and I think that's amazing. But when you're specifically picking on guys, that's when it's not right. 'No Scrubs' is the meanest, dumbest song ever made because they need to be specific in certain areas.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

It just seems OK these days to throw women under the bus. Like we're a bargaining chip.

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?

I want men to stop calling me a queen and treating me like an imbecile.

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.

No woman ever lived who could compete with a man on an equal basis - even a 55-year-old man. There's a lot of talk about Women's Lib. They feel they're worth as much as the guys, but they can't play a lick if they can't beat a 55-year-old guy.

Sexism is real.

Feminism is cancer.

I don't fear being judged as a misogynist.

I've always been sure of my vision, but I've been in meetings where men have been talking about me like I'm not there... I've been told I should be a certain way, and I wondered if that would have been the case if I was a man.

Rightly or wrongly, as a woman in politics, you're being judged for what you're wearing, and people are paying attention to that more than they do with men.

Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.

#TimesUp is you can't hold it in anymore: Time's up! The doors have to give way. It can't be that every 27-year-old born into a male body is a designated genius. It can't be that the language used to review male and female films is different.

Nobody that I know would ever say that I'm sexist.