Modernity is not about dress codes.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANWe shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
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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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Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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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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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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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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Being queen is overrated.
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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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My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I’d rather not focus on that.
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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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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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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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The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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