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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
Music Video Director
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Singer-Songwriter
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Aiberdeen
Ann Lennox
Ann Griselda Lennox
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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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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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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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It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.
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I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
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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.
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When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don't know what's around the corner.
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I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.
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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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There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
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Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.
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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.
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I think the whole experience of being a human being on the planet is such a mystery, to be honest. Trying to figure out one's purpose and [asking] What is it all about?
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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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I'm passionate about everything, actually. I'm passionate about life.
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Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.
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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.
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We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.
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I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
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I think that you can only be true to yourself. Nobody can live up to other people's expectations. You will always let them down. There will always be something they won't like about you.
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