My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANWe shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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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.
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Being queen is overrated.
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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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Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.
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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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We look at problems happening halfway across the world and we think, ‘Well, that’s their problem.’ But it’s not. … When you solve somebody else’s problem, you’re solving a problem for yourself because our world today is so interconnected.
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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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The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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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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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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We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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