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I have different hats I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.

Annie Lennox

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Annie Lennox
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
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Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.
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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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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.
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Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
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It was very easy for me to dedicate myself to the care of mothers, help them have healthy babies, help them be healthy, help them in a place where they don't have opportunities. Success breeds the excitement to continue going. It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.
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Poor countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without the means to tackle it . Governments can only show how seriously they are taking this crisis by taking immediate action to provide four million extra health workers and to grant those in need access to affordable medicines.
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I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.
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I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.
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I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.
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I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
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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. '
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Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really wealthy family, but there was no real love. Everyone's living these extraordinary, interesting lives whether they know it or not.
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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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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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I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.
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There needs to be a shift in consciousness there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.
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