Annie Lennox Quotes

Annie Lennox (79)

Birth:	25th December, 1954
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Activist, Philanthropist, Singer, Lyricist

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Today's Anniversary - 23rd May

Births

• 1947 - Paul Gruchow
• 1974 - Ken Jennings
• 1914 - Barbara Ward
• 1967 - Charlie Hunter
• 1948 - Gary McCord

Deaths

• 2008 - Alan Brien
• 1934 - Bonnie Elizabeth Parker
• 1945 - Heinrich Himmler
• 1906 - Henrik Ibsen
• 1937 - John Davison Rockefeller

• Women’s issues have always been a part of my life.

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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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• When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty – they were coming from a universal and personal place.

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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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• 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.

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

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• The inner world is very potent for me – I don’t ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha – I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

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• The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users.

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• People ask me so many questions.

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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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• Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.

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• Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance – it’s the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

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• Money is a good thing and it’s obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

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• Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

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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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• As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

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• 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.

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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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• 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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• 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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