Annie Lennox Quotes & Sayings

“We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.”

“Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.”

“Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.”

“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.”

“Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.”

“Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.”

“Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody... as a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.”

“There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.”

“I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.”

“Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.”