Annie Lennox Quotes
-
I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.
-
I get very frustrated when I hear women saying, "Oh, feminism is passé," because I think feminism means empowerment. Men can be feminists, too! Many men are feminists. We need feminism. It's not against men; it's about the empowerment of women. It's the respect of women - giving women equal rights, the same opportunities.
-
I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
-
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.
-
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?
-
We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.
-
I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.
-
I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.
-
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.
-
Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.
-
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.
-
Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.
-
I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.
-
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...
-
If someone says something unpleasant, I can't say it doesn't smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there.
-
I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.
-
Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.
-
The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through.
-
Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.
-
I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.
-
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.
-
I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.
-
I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.
-
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.