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

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Of course, I tweet. Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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Expressison Home Husband Personal Son
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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Cascade Educated Girl
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.
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Children Daunting Empowerment Opportunity Safety Women
There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
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Day Misperception One Stereotype
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Exclusive Modernity Religion
My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
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Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.
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Protect Shields Throw
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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Changing Dream Jobs Life
Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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Great Teacher Transform Good
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.
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Believe Rich Understanding
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Course Democracy Process
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.
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Clothes Creative Expression
The job description for a queen changes with the times.
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Description Jobs Queens
I don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
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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.
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Empowered Feels Labels
Extremism is not endemic in my region, nor is anti-Western sentiment. No doubt there is discontent and distrust. That is towards more the American and some Western policies, and not toward the American people.
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Distrust Doubt People