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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

Queen Rania of Jordan

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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Country Girl Looks
I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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Person Sacrifice Want
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
Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.
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Protect Shields Throw
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
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
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
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
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
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
The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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Catalyst Real Youth
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 lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
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Loses Sleep Worry
I’m amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.
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Hurt People Women World
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Exclusive Modernity Religion