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I believe women need to hear stories and see images that they can identify with, not media-fabricated ideals that even the 'role models' themselves can't live up to.
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I was about 15 years old, and I needed a job, and somebody I know - I don't even know who it was - said that there was a television show that needed a presenter and that I should go and audition for it, so I did. That was a show called 'The Word,' and I got that job.
Amanda de Cadenet
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Persuasiveness takes finesse; it takes an understanding of human psychology. And intention is everything.
Amanda de Cadenet -
Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.
Amanda de Cadenet -
When I look at a woman through my camera, I see her with complete admiration and appreciation of her beauty, strength, and power - and that's how I do my best to represent her.
Amanda de Cadenet -
I'd like to interview Rita Ora - I think she's really cool.
Amanda de Cadenet -
I hate small talk! I can't do it.
Amanda de Cadenet -
I love photography - I fell in love with photography, I think, because it was my own thing, it wasn't something I needed other people's permission to do. So, it was really freeing for me actually to be able to not be a famous person and just to take pictures.
Amanda de Cadenet
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You are the most important thing in your life. Put yourself at the center of your life.
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From the ages of 12 to 35 my body, not my mind, was my primary currency. My ideas, my humor, my curiosity - none of those were valued as much as my body, which preceded me into almost every room.
Amanda de Cadenet -
I have met people on the subway who have told me the most profound stories, and I am convinced we all have something to teach each other if we just slow down long enough to hear the message.
Amanda de Cadenet -
Being a young woman is difficult enough, but add to that the pressures of Hollywood's spotlight, and you have a lot to navigate.
Amanda de Cadenet -
Persuasiveness is really just about getting your ideas across without being forceful. It's a skill that can be learned and is useful for anyone who works in a team environment.
Amanda de Cadenet -
If there was anyone primed to raise their kids feminist, it was me. My parents treated me no differently from my brother. I was raised to believe I was capable of doing anything I set my mind to.
Amanda de Cadenet
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In marriage, you sacrifice the adrenaline rush of seeing someone new for the comfort of being with someone who knows everything about you and loves you anyway.
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Every episode of 'The Conversation' was created to be a platform for women, to connect women, and to allow women's voices to be heard as much as possible. That's why I launched that show on a television network and online simultaneously.
Amanda de Cadenet -
I could do a show with men; I'd love to do that, but it's women that I know and understand.
Amanda de Cadenet -
I was in so much emotional pain as a young girl that whatever distracted me from how I felt about myself was fine by me.
Amanda de Cadenet -
The most beautiful girl in the room not only gets the guy, she lands the job, gets better service at a restaurant, rises through the social ranks before her friends. Doors open for the beautiful woman that may not for a female who is twice as smart but half as beautiful.
Amanda de Cadenet -
When young people implode, we judge them rather than saying they need help.
Amanda de Cadenet
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Despite the gender stereotypes in the '80s, my race-car-driving dad taught me that I could do whatever my brother could.
Amanda de Cadenet -
I've always known if anything killed me, it would be boys. From the time I was a teenager into my thirties, I loved only the ones who were bad news.
Amanda de Cadenet -
Only when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired do any of us do something different.
Amanda de Cadenet -
At age 14, you are just beginning to work out who you think you are, and being famous is a huge distortion of reality, and it's not healthy for a young person to be considered more special than their peers. So, I would say it hindered my self-esteem but in later years gave me a great perspective that I wouldn't have if I hadn't experienced that.
Amanda de Cadenet