Annie Lennox Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Annie Lennox on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.
Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.
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.
For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.
You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.
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.
Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family.
I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.
Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.
Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.
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.
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?
Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.
I was never much of a one to win prizes ... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.
I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.
Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.
I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.
Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.
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.
I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.
Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.
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.
There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.
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 want people to start thinking about what it means to be HIV-positive and to ask questions about that.
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
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.
Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.
I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.
Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.
I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.
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.
I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'
I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.
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. '
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.
I used to be obsessed about how I presented myself. I didn't want other people dressing me because I didn't want to be treated like a clothes horse.
I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?
You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.