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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Queen Rania of Jordan

When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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Cascade Educated Girl
Being queen is overrated.
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Being Overrated People Queens
I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women’s empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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Children Daunting Empowerment Opportunity Safety Women
I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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Person Sacrifice Want
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
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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Code Dress Dresses Modernity
My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I’d rather not focus on that.
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Focus Gossip Rumor
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
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
We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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Judging People Stereotype
The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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Catalyst Real Youth
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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Common Sense Girl Moral
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
Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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Great Teacher Transform Good
I don’t think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
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People Population Thinking