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 JORDANIt 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.
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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.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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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.
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Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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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.
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Muslim women must stand up and speak out about who we are, what we believe and where we are going. I think we need to know that our counterparts in the west are also willing to listen and reciprocate.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Being queen is overrated.
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The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
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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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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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