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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

The job description for a queen changes with the times.
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Description Jobs Queens
The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
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Communist Hardest Misperception Religion Women
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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Cascade Educated Girl
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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Fleeting Judgment Television
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
My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
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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.
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Children Daunting Empowerment Opportunity Safety Women
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Exclusive Modernity Religion
Modernity is not about dress codes.
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Code Dress Dresses Modernity
I don’t believe there is a clash between cultures. I believe there is a clash between perceptions of each other.
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Believe Culture Perception
I don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
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Loses Sleep Worry
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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Changing Dream Jobs Life
The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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Catalyst Real Youth
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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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Born Political Will
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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