Look at any country that’s plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society’s ills.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANThe hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
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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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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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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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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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Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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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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The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
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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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I don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
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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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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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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
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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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