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" I think the thing about New York City real estate is that you kind of just take what you can get when you're renting. "
Leandra Medine
Real Estate
Think
You
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" Especially with Instagram, I feel reluctant to make all the photos beautiful because I don't necessarily want to send this message that life is perfect and your avocado toast is always going to be beautifully lit. I want readers to feel like the Man Repeller page is real and kind of dirty. Messy. "
Leandra Medine
Man
Perfect
Life
" As long as you are promoting something that you really believe in - yes, it's incredible to see that designer earn the esteem they deserve - but there's something to be said about the fact that if you're convicted about an opinion, and you really believe something's great, you're not going to credit yourself for their success. "
Leandra Medine
Success
Long
Great
" I didn't actually even really know my grandmother; I must have been 3 or 4 when she died. "
Leandra Medine
Grandmother
She
Must
" As someone who has been known for the way they've been dressed, it's almost OK for me to wear New Balances and sweat pants. I'm not necessarily moulding trends, but it's OK if I'm not adhering to them. "
Leandra Medine
New
Me
Dressed
" I haven't worn make-up since my wedding, and my husband loves me a lot. "
Leandra Medine
Lot
Wedding
Husband
" 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. "
Leandra Medine
Man
Day
Care
" I think, fundamentally, Man Repeller is a voice for women to connect with; they can come and try it on for size and be a part of it, and if it works for them, they take it with them. "
Leandra Medine
Man
Size
Think
" When you're writing a blog post, you can take solace in knowing that you will immediately know how people will respond to it, and if the criticism is bad, then that's fine because you can work on that and fix it, and if it's good, then that's great because you know what to do in the future. It gets pushed down so quickly. "
Leandra Medine
Know
Future
Good
" I don't hate what I see when I look in the mirror. Even if legions of others don't agree. I have accepted the reflection that reliably bounces back at me for its perks and its flaws. "
Leandra Medine
Me
Look
Hate
" I love manicures - I'm really into colorful nails. "
Leandra Medine
I Love
Love
Colorful
" 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. "
Leandra Medine
Never
Done
Right
" Initially what defined me as a 'man repeller' was my conscious effort to wear clothing that was attractive in my opinion but not necessarily in a man's opinion. "
Leandra Medine
Wear
Opinion
Me
" My blog is not about repelling men, it's about good fashion. "
Leandra Medine
Good
Fashion
Blog
" I'm Jewish, so I don't really do Christmas gifts, and Hanukkah is not as big a deal as gifts are concerned, so I never actually give gifts. "
Leandra Medine
Big
Jewish
Christmas
" When push comes to shove, no one really cares what you're wearing except you. "
Leandra Medine
Push
You
Really
" By the time I graduated college, I was sick of what was out there. I wanted to bring something new to the Internet. "
Leandra Medine
Internet
Time
Sick
" I think Man Repeller is more about self-confidence than it is about a woman's relationship with a man. "
Leandra Medine
Man
More
Woman
" I am comfortable with how I look. "
Leandra Medine
I Am
How
Am
" I think that when I started Man Repeller, the Internet was still hungry for authentic content from girls that weren't actresses or supermodels and were just relatable girls who had opinions and outfit ideas, and they weren't always good, but at least they were original. "
Leandra Medine
Ideas
Internet
Man
" I started my blog when I was a senior in college, and I knew that all the people in my program were probably going to be applying for very similar jobs, so I needed something to separate my resume. "
Leandra Medine
Started
College
People
" Fashion is used as a tool to convey a point about who we are or potentially want to be. Whether or not a civilian curates his or her own aesthetic is up that person, but it is an integral part of one's public image. "
Leandra Medine
Own
Person
Want
" I'm someone very comfortable airing out the stories of my own life. Some people call it narcissism, but for me, the intention is that it will positively affect other people. "
Leandra Medine
Some People
Me
People
" It seems inevitable, if unfair, that when a woman is vying for a prominent position in office, her outfit choices will be analyzed to a degree considerably higher than those of her male counterpart by simple existence of gender stereotypes. "
Leandra Medine
Outfit
Woman
Simple
" I never thought I'd wear Birkenstocks, but here I am! Having said that, I'm pretty sure I'd never wear Crocs. "
Leandra Medine
I Am
Here
Pretty
" I got a C in art when I was in 11th grade. That it is even possible to come out of a high school art class with a C is wondrous, especially considering the creative license we were encouraged to use to, for lack of a better axiom, color outside the lines. "
Leandra Medine
Color
Art
Better
" What good is a wall without framed art? It is like the equivalent of the accessories that you choose to wear to decorate a black dress - precisely the stuff that makes the wall/dress you. "
Leandra Medine
Art
Dress
You
" 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. "
Leandra Medine
Face
Prison
Woman
" 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. "
Leandra Medine
New
Like
Holidays
" Nighttime dressing is not very different from daytime dressing for me. I feel like night clothes don't get a chance to live the way day clothes do, so I prefer to think of night clothes as day clothes. "
Leandra Medine
Me
Day
Think
" That's what I always wanted Man Repeller to do - to change the way people actually think. Showing young girls that there are no rules. "
Leandra Medine
Man
Change
Think