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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

Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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Great Teacher Transform Good
The job description for a queen changes with the times.
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Description Jobs Queens
When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it’s not common sense yet.
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Common Sense Girl Moral
I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
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Believe Children World
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.
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Devotion God Mean People
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
Being queen is overrated.
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Being Overrated People Queens
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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Believe Out Speaks Thinking
By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive – and that precludes everything.
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Everything Goal Lines Precludes Self
I don’t think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
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People Population Thinking
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
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
We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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Judging People Stereotype
I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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Person Sacrifice Want
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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Cascade Educated Girl