Amanda de Cadenet : (8)

" From 12-year-old girls to 70-year-old matriarchs, I know hundreds of women who have some sort of body image issue. This is sad and seriously worrying, but it’s true, and it’s why I feel some kind of social responsibility to do what I can to show a variety of body types in fashion magazines. " - Amanda de Cadenet

" We all want love and to feel safe, wanted, cared for, to like our selves, our bodies, to have families and feel okay in the world. " - Amanda de Cadenet

" Female friendships have sustained me from my earliest days as a child. " - Amanda de Cadenet

" Sitting down with the insightful Gabourey Sidibe was a wonderful experience. " - Amanda de Cadenet

" 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. " - Amanda de Cadenet

" Things are only as important as you make them out to be. " - Amanda de Cadenet

" Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don’t think it is. I think it’s just having a female perspective. " - Amanda de Cadenet

" You can lose who you are so easily when you’re being so many things to so many different people. " - Amanda de Cadenet