"I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well." ― Annie Lennox Topic(s): Poetry Tags: branch More From Annie Lennox "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." "I mean, I’m 48 years old and I’ve been through a lot in my life – you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations… We all have dreams." "It’s hard to tell how far women’s individuality has come in the past twenty years." More In Poetry "You don’t go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work."― Phyllis Gotlieb "Otherwise I don’t read much adult poetry at all, because I’m not smart enough and mostly I don’t get it."― Jack Prelutsky "I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem."― Howard Nemerov