33 Quotes By Annie Lennox


I love to make music and stay grounded.
Annie Lennox on music

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.
Annie Lennox on music

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.
Annie Lennox on poetry

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.
Annie Lennox on power

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

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.
Annie Lennox on women

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. '
Annie Lennox on women

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.
Annie Lennox on women

Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.
Annie Lennox on women

Women's issues have always been a part of my life.
Annie Lennox on women

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

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

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