Amanda de Cadenet Quotes

I'm passionate about women's issues, and there are no outlets for that on TV, so I wanted to create one.

Amanda de Cadenet

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• Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Women
  • First
  • Jump

• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Women
  • Man
  • Hero

• Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Women
  • You
  • Know

• We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Women
  • Self
  • Stand

• As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Strong

• Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Up
  • Women
  • High

• Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Attention

• Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Women
  • Age
  • Discrimination

• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • People
  • Women
  • Black

• There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Women
  • You
  • Living

• At the end of the day, I want to create collections that, although I am inspired by very creative women, I want my customer to walk away with a silhouette that she doesn't even know what collection it comes from. That it just lasts in her wardrobe and makes her feel strong and confident and hopefully happy.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Women
  • She
  • Happy

• I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Women
  • Money
  • True

• Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Leadership

• I don't like actors, I like women.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • Women
  • Like

• I think it's so fun when I get to work with women writers in particular because we really understand the core story or foundation as women. That's so important to me that the authenticity is there, you know, from the place that I speak from for my women. Having other females with me helps me dig deeper.

  

  Ciara
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.

  

  Bobby McFerrin
  • Time
  • Country
  • School

• Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Home
  • America
  • Parents

• Living artificially in towns, we are sickly, and never come to know ourselves.

  

  John Muir

• First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must 'once in his life' withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself, to overthrow and build anew all the sciences that, up to then, he has been accepting.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Life
  • Up

• I'm passionate about women's issues, and there are no outlets for that on TV, so I wanted to create one.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Women