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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

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I’d rather not focus on that.
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Focus Gossip Rumor
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Course Democracy Process
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Exclusive Modernity Religion
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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Cascade Educated Girl
I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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Person Sacrifice Want
We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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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
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