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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.

Annie Lennox

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Annie Lennox
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
Hiv Activist
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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.
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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.
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To be labeled as a strong woman when you feel vulnerable is a strange place to be, because then you're, like, Oh, I have to be strong now. But I don't feel strong. I feel alienated. I feel isolated. I feel that things are very surreal, and they're not authentic, and this is all just very overwhelming.
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Motherhood was the great equaliser for me I started to identify with everybody.
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I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps.
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I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.
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The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.
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If one woman is suffering, then we are all suffering, and we need to put a voice to that.
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The momentum of time is always going forward. You cannot repeat what has been done before. You can't go back.
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As you get older, there will be a new challenge arising. What you thought you'd accomplished once, maybe the goal post has shifted and it's not what you're pursuing anymore, because you're not interested in that anymore, you know?
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I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.
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I wanted to create something that was quite edgy and belonged to me. It wasn't about my sexual orientation, because I'm heterosexual. It was saying that appearance is just temporary, and I want to be as strong as a man.
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One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.
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I have a lot to be grateful for.
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I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.
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I love to make music and stay grounded.
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In a way, it's all down to perception, isn't it? And everyone has their own take on everything.
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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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Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.
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Let me be the only one to keep you from the cold Now the floor of hell is laid, the stars are bright as gold They light for you, they shine for you They burn for all to see Come into these arms again and set your spirit free
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