Amanda de Cadenet Quotes

My father always said, 'You can do anything a man can do.'

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

I come from a strong woman who believed - and my father believed - that anything a man could do, a woman could do better.

My parents are both massive feminists and always led me to believe that I could dream big and do anything that I wanted in my life, almost to a delusional degree.

I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.

Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

If women want to be treated equally, then they can't ask for sops and whine about not being treated equally. All I'll say is no guts, no glory for men or women.

I don't think there is anything a man can do that a woman cannot do.

Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'

My child has changed things for me. Lately, I really wish there were greater roles for women. I think I see it in a different way now. I look at my little girl and I don't want her to think that all she has to be is pretty and quiet.

When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?'

I'm not a sexist. I believe if a man can to go work all his life, a woman can. Who am I to say, 'Don't do that because you're a girl?'

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

We had a mother who could have been called a feminist. That's just how we were raised. Why do you have to go sulk off in some corner because you are a girl? What's the big deal?

Our society demands that women be treated equally and that we not discriminate against them.

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it's liberating, and it's empowering when you feel like, 'Well, I can do that, too.'

The point of feminism is you shouldn't have to be a man to be treated with equal respect.

Women are inferior to none.

There was never a perception that I was second-class relative to boys. That gave me confidence.

We're a much different generation now, so I think us girls can stand up for ourselves.

I think we still have a long way to go in understanding that feminist and femininity are not opposites.