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There's always darkness around, and if you focus on the darkness, you don't know where to go. But if you direct yourself at the light - there it is! It's right there.
Annie Lennox
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Annie Lennox
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
Hiv Activist
Music Video Director
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Aiberdeen
Ann Lennox
Ann Griselda Lennox
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The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users.
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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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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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I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.
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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.
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Twerking is not feminism. Thats what I’m referring to. It’s not — it’s not liberating, it’s not empowering. It’s a sexual thing that you’re doing on a stage it doesn’t empower you. That’s my feeling about it.
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The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.
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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.
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I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.
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I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.
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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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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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