When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANIt 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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Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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Modernity is not about dress codes.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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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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The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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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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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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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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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Extremism is not endemic in my region, nor is anti-Western sentiment. No doubt there is discontent and distrust. That is towards more the American and some Western policies, and not toward the American people.
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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 hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
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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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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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