Quotes from Amanda de Cadenet

I've learnt that if you can't get rid of something, you have to find a way to live with it.

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.

If I'm looking at life without a spiritual perspective, it's a lot more painful, a lot more confusing, and there's so much that I don't understand.

Stay away from other people's partners.

As women, we're trying to be the best mothers and partners and have careers. We're trying to do so much. It's okay to say to other women, 'How do you do this?' Because I honestly don't know. The more we are honest, the more you realize we're all just trying to figure this out.

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.

I've worked very hard on my self-esteem, and I know my value.

When you've worked as hard as I have to form your identity, the last thing you want is to blur where you end and someone else begins.

I'd personally like to see more 'real bodies' in magazines.

I share personal things about myself in the context of my interviews and in 'It's Messy' - but that's 20 percent of my life.

I've never interviewed anyone where I set out to try to persuade them to reveal something. Instead, it's about creating a space that allows someone to be authentic without judgment on my part.

I've photographed a lot of my good girlfriends, and it's given me a lot of anxiety because I don't want to let them down.

As a photographer, there are times when I have to decide if it's appropriate to invade a moment with my camera.

I am one of the last photographers to convert to digital.

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.

I've grown up around people who love photography, and I think from being photographed for so long, I always wanted to understand how it worked, and I've been fortunate enough to be photographed by some really wonderful photographers, and so I learnt a lot from them, and I always ask them questions.

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.

I hope I can make a show that will inspire a whole other generation of young women and girls to say, "I can do a show like that."

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

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

Honestly, I do believe in the power of women supporting each other.

It doesn't matter how many people adore you or how skinny, successful, smart, talented, funny, kind, or compassionate you are. None of it matters if you don't see your wonderful self.

Pregnancy is a time for women to feel more connected with their bodies, and yet often the opposite occurs.

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