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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANMy position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I’d rather not focus on that.
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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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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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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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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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Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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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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Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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I don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
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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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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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The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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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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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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