Annie Lennox Quotes - Page 4

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

I'm very intrigued that in this culture of reality television and celebrity - which is an enormous industry and generates billions and billions of dollars - we're so resourceful.

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.

Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like me, you want to see an end to poverty, you need to be in it for the long haul.

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning getting it done, and then you start the next day with the same energy, because it's working!

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.

The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself.

I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.

I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

To be labeled as a strong woman when you feel vulnerable is a strange place to be, because then you're, like, "Oh, I have to be strong now. But I don't feel strong. I feel alienated. I feel isolated. I feel that things are very surreal, and they're not authentic, and this is all just very overwhelming."

Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.

The poetic side of me is Scottish.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

As you get older, there will be a new challenge arising. What you thought you'd accomplished once, maybe the goal post has shifted and it's not what you're pursuing anymore, because you're not interested in that anymore, you know?

You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.