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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

Queen Rania of Jordan

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
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
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
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 don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
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Loses Sleep Worry
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
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
I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Born Political Will
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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Empowered Feels Labels
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
Being queen is overrated.
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Being Overrated People Queens
The job description for a queen changes with the times.
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Description Jobs Queens
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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Cascade Educated Girl
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
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
For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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Devotion God Mean People
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
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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Fighting Media Rights
Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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Changing Future Girl World
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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Our Thinking Today World
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
Modernity is not about dress codes.
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Code Dress Dresses Modernity
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
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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Believe Rich Understanding
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
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Course Democracy Process
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Exclusive Modernity Religion