Annie Lennox Quotes
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I have a lot to be grateful for.
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We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.
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I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.
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I wasn't trying to be a role model for anybody. I don't think that you can.
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My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was terrifying, because we knew nothing about how to respond to it appropriately, and we didn't really understand about how the virus is passed. There was a lot of misconception about that.
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Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.
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Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.
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There's so much stigma around HIV/AIDS. It's a challenging issue, and the people that already have been tested and know their status find it very, very hard to disclose their status, to live with that virus, and to even seek out the kind of information they need. This experience of going to South Africa a decade ago really woke me up to the scale of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, how it was affecting women and their children. I haven't been able to walk away from it.
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The very fact that the planet is probably unsustainable with all that we've done to it and are doing to it, it's an appalling piece of evidence. It shows our complacency, our lack of passion or inclination to be authentic and really understand our true values. It's consistently depressing, but nevertheless, we carry on.
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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.
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I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.
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Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.
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I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.
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Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.
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When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.
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It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.
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I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.
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I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.
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We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.
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I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys.
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There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.
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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.
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I'd rather support the issues I truly believe in than give my vote to parties that court votes at the time of the election. I like to think that my vote strengthens the green foundation stone.
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Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.