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Queen Rania of Jordan

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
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
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
We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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Judging People Stereotype
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
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
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
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
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
At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It’s really your essence and your values that are important.
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Day End Essence Important
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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Expressison Home Husband Personal Son
I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Born Political Will
I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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Person Sacrifice Want
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 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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