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My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I’d rather not focus on that.

Queen Rania of Jordan

My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Models People Role Wish
I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women’s empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Children Daunting Empowerment Opportunity Safety Women
I don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Loses Sleep Worry
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Course Democracy Process
The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Communist Hardest Misperception Religion Women
Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone’s rights. It’s where we’re reminded that we’re all human and all equal. It’s where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Fighting Media Rights
I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Born Political Will
The youth are the catalysts for real change.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Catalyst Real Youth
By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive – and that precludes everything.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Everything Goal Lines Precludes Self
It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Fleeting Judgment Television
I don’t know if I’d put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Empowered Feels Labels
Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don’t get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Clothes Creative Expression
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Cascade Educated Girl
I don’t believe that there is fair enough understanding of either our status as women or the total context of our lives, which is very rich and multi-faceted.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Believe Rich Understanding
For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Devotion God Mean People
We look at problems happening halfway across the world and we think, ‘Well, that’s their problem.’ But it’s not. … When you solve somebody else’s problem, you’re solving a problem for yourself because our world today is so interconnected.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

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