Marie Meiselman Shear (1940 – December 2017), also known as Marie Shear Meiselman, was an American writer and feminist activist, known for her definition of feminism as "The radical notion that women are people."

Marie Shear Meiselman[1][2] majored in English at Brooklyn College,[3] and graduated in 1964.

[7] She also wrote opinion and advice essays for Ms. Magazine and the San Francisco Examiner,[8][9][10] and contributed to The Women's Review of Books.

[11] Shear coined the phrase "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people" in her review of A Feminist Dictionary in New Directions for Women in 1986.

[12] It appears as one of over thirty additional definitions created by Shear as a 'toast' to the compilers of the dictionary, which has led to its misattribution to those compilers (Cheris Kramarae, Paula A. Treichler, and Ann Russo).