Annie Lennox Quotes

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Annie Lennox

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 25, 1954

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

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I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.

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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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It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.

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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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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. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background.

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I've never been a social person.

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I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.

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Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

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

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If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

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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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I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

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

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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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When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.

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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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A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

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I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

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