Annie Lennox Quotes - Page 2

We're not interested to know the real heroes. We're really more interested in the villains, actually, and they seem to thrive, and it continues to be business as usual.

I'm appalled that the word 'feminism' has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture. It isn't about us and them.

I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.

The momentum of time is always going forward. You cannot repeat what has been done before. You can't go back.

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.

I have a lot to be grateful for.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

Fashion is temporary; fashion is a race. What it's doing is giving you something that you say, "This is the outer wrapping of me." Style is something else. It's not quantifiable. Fashion is about selling. Fashion is about what's in. Style is independent of that; style is individual.

If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist. You're not going there just to merely observe. You have a purpose, and your purpose is to tell that story, to share that story for the bigger benefit of millions of other people. Your purpose is to create that bridge so you can give that story the dignity and the focus that it deserves, and you can become a part of the amplification that needs to be there.

There must be an angel, Playing with my heart. And when I think that I'm alone, It seems there's more of us at home...

When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.

People ask me so many questions.

The dynamic between two individuals starts off with everything warm and nice and fabulous and good. Working and living together can serve you quite well, but when it starts to go wrong - oh, boy!

Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.

Women empowering other women.They get the psycho-social support. They become part of a community.

You have to be quite grounded, and I don't know what that is. Sometimes, that means being vulnerable.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

I grew up in a middle class household with parents, went to good schools, and never feared for anything, never wanted for anything that was really important. For all of us living in this world, all of us who have the resources, for us to not dedicate ourselves to giving something back, is to leave the world a lesser place.

I chose a career in obstetrics and gynecology because there's something about honoring women, honoring the birth process. We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really wealthy family, but there was no real love. Everyone's living these extraordinary, interesting lives whether they know it or not.