"As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in." ― Annie Lennox Topic(s): Society Tags: creative, person More From Annie Lennox "Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance – it’s the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries." "I can’t understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven’t really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa – 60 percent of people in – infected with HIV are women." "Money is a good thing and it’s obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me." More In Society "The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality."― Talcott Parsons "One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action – the ability to pass directly from thought to action."― Eric Hoffer "A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular."― Adlai E. Stevenson