The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. Annie Lennox More Quotes by Annie Lennox More Quotes From Annie Lennox We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well. Annie Lennox light dark sides I guess what I'm passionate about is, I see so many things that I find that there's no real solution to, and you're only here for such a brief moment in time, even if you live to be a hundred years old. Yet, what happens within that time frame? So many things happen. Annie Lennox passionate real years The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through. Annie Lennox community mother people We need money to scale up the services that bring medicine to mothers. The United States government's doing that. There's a global fund that's providing money. mothers2mothers provides for mothers who come in who don't have education, who don't have support. mothers2mothers employs mothers with HIV, mothers who were patients recently in the very same facilities. We take those mothers who were patients who've had their babies, we bring them back, we train them, we pay them, to be health care professionals. Annie Lennox government mother baby Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe. Annie Lennox medicine people needs If you do nothing, if a mother doesn't come for care, if she breastfeeds her baby, the chances of the baby getting HIV are about 40%. So it's about the difference between 40% and zero. This is almost totally preventable. But it requires mothers coming for care and getting the medicines they need, and getting the education and support they need. Annie Lennox zero mother baby In the States, the HIV transmission from mother to child is almost completely preventable - the only mothers who really do transmit it are the ones who don't come in for care. If a mother in the United States or in Europe or in the UK comes to care and gets her medicines, she will have an HIV negative baby. Most people don't know that. Annie Lennox mother baby children To try to help people have babies in a healthy way and to celebrate the process of delivering a child which will be healthy is, I think, almost the best part of healthcare. Annie Lennox baby children thinking My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was terrifying, because we knew nothing about how to respond to it appropriately, and we didn't really understand about how the virus is passed. There was a lot of misconception about that. Annie Lennox hiv viruses understanding I'm not living my life under the spotlight for anybody. Annie Lennox spotlight living-my-life The music industry has always been a beast, which would eat you up and spit you out. Annie Lennox spit beast music-industry 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. Annie Lennox strong want men What's really interesting is when you get a brand-new wave that has no connection to anything else. It always reflects society. The flappers would cut the dresses and make them looser, they smoked, their hair was short. It was a rebellion against the corset and the Edwardian era. Annie Lennox cutting hair interesting Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family. Annie Lennox medicine healthy children The contrast of the world that we live in and the world that is here in Aspen and the world inhabited by women who have no resources, little or no, very few resources - huge disparity. Annie Lennox aspens littles world You have a bigger view, of something bigger than you, and you have to view that and take that in mind. At times you feel like despair rises up over hope, then other times you feel hopeful again. Annie Lennox hopeful views mind 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. Annie Lennox mother opportunity baby I'm passionate about everything, actually. I'm passionate about life. Annie Lennox passionate 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 focus light darkness The very fact that the planet is probably unsustainable with all that we've done to it and are doing to it, it's an appalling piece of evidence. It shows our complacency, our lack of passion or inclination to be authentic and really understand our true values. It's consistently depressing, but nevertheless, we carry on. Annie Lennox depressing passion done
