Top 225 Quotes & Sayings by Annie Lennox - Page 2

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

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

Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.

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.

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

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.

The dynamic between two individuals starts off with everything warm and nice and fabulous and good. Working and living together can serve you quite well, but when it starts to go wrong - oh, boy!

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.

I like where I live here, in London.

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.

Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.

I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person.

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.

I'm not really keen on comebacks. Eurythmics was an incredible thing. When I look back on that work, I feel very satisfied with it.

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.

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.

I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.

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.

I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.

I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.

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

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

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 also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.

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.

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 watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.

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?

I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.

I have a lot to be grateful for.

I am a communicator; that seems to be my natural place. And I'll always be passionate about the world, because it's so bonkers.

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.

Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.

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.

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.

Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.

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 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 will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.

Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.

I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.

I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.

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.