Amanda de Cadenet Quotes

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Amanda de Cadenet

Profession : Photographer

Birth : May 19, 1972

If I could wave a magic wand, I would be a size 6 and still be able to eat cake every day.

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The fact is external feminine beauty is highly valued, and we are constantly given the message that a slamming body is the most valuable thing a woman can possess.

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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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Being present with a person and just seeing them for who they are is something that is so rarely given to us, and I try to do that with everyone I meet.

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Whitney Cummings is a very dear friend of mine, and she is a huge advocate for women.

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No one understood why I would wanna be behind the camera, not in front of the camera, and so no one took me seriously, and people said, 'Oh, well, this is just a hobby isn't it?' and I said, 'No, I really love this. I wanna make this my career,' and I did not have a lot of support at all for many years. People just kind of thought it was a joke.

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My kids see feminism in action every day, and leading by imperfect example is how I'm raising them.

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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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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.

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By age 19, I was married to a high-profile, much older musician and was mother to a baby girl. Since then, I've been divorced, been a cheater, been cheated on, gotten happily remarried, and raised a couple of great kids.

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I try to make things that are not elitist.

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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.

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People know what authentic communication feels like, so having someone else handle your social media/commenting doesn't feel honest to me.

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Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.

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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.

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Female friendships have sustained me from my earliest days as a child.

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You have a different experience as a woman walking through life; you just do.

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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.

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I was put in White City children's home when I was 15.

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People reacted to how I looked, and that was certainly a power to have as a young girl, but not one that you really understand.

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