Annie Lennox Quotes
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I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.
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Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.
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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.
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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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Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.
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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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This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead
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I have a lot to be grateful for.
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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.
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I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.
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Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.
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You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.
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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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I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.
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Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?
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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?
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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.
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Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.
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When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.
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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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Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.
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We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.
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There's good stuff and bad stuff, but you continue on. I'm not prescriptive - I cannot tell anyone else what to do with their lives, and I'm a deeply flawed individual - but this is it. We're all just living it and... bless us all.
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HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.