Leandra Medine

“Nothing feels better than constructing a beautiful sentence.”

“What a woman does or does not do to her face is personal. And as with most other things, makeup or a lack thereof can serve as either a prison or a fortress commanded by the mind: you can become a slave to it, or it can set you free.”

“The men who really get repelled by what you're wearing are a little shallow, and you probably don't want to date them anyway.”

“The holidays are only overwhelming because it's crunch time. It's like everyone trying to get last-minute things in before the New Year starts.”

“Fashion Week is a great opportunity to make unimportant people feel like they own the world.”

“Without getting too spiritual, God has done so much for me; the least I can do is drink Kiddush wine on a Friday night.”

“I have never done anything to my brows, though sometimes I tweeze the intersection of the left and right brow, which is either a really good thing or a really bad thing.”

“The number one thing I would say to someone who wants to start a business is if you really can't sleep at night and smack the passion out of yourself, then go for it, but if you can live a happy life working for someone else, do that.”

“When I'm wearing red lipstick, I'll never do anything with my eyes. And it's so easy - you just put on red lipstick, and your whole face just seems done.”

“I think Man Repeller is more about self-confidence than it is about a woman's relationship with a man.”

“When push comes to shove, no one really cares what you're wearing except you.”

“People often ask me if my parents helped me. My mother did lend me $10 to register the domain name.”

“You're not stupid because you're interested in fashion, period.”

“My goal is never to push anyone to do anything other than think.”

“I have a degree in journalism, which is something that I make very clear very frequently just so people are aware of it. I went to school to write... Editorial integrity is very important to me.”

“I didn't launch the website with any goals in mind, to be honest. I didn't know that it would have been anything other than a digital portfolio once I graduated college.”

“I want Man Repeller to feel like you're waking up in the morning, you're calling your girlfriend, you don't know what she is going to say, you don't really care what she has to say, but you know you're going to like it, and you're going to laugh and hang up the phone and feel ready to take on the day with all this new knowledge.”

“No matter the candidate, every detail in a campaign is carefully and strategically framed for our consumption. The devil is in them.”

“Your doubts are generated by fear, and fear is a series of distorted thoughts.”

“I'm probably most inspired by good street style that features items I already own; it's always great to see how another person wears something you have, which sort of reinvents it for you.”