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Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.

Queen Rania of Jordan

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?
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Expressison Home Husband Personal Son
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
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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Believe Out Speaks Thinking
The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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Catalyst Real Youth
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Course Democracy Process
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
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
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.
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Modernity is not about dress codes.
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Code Dress Dresses Modernity
I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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Person Sacrifice Want
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
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
Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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Great Teacher Transform Good
Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone’s rights. It’s where we’re reminded that we’re all human and all equal. It’s where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Fighting Media Rights
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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Cascade Educated Girl
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