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?
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANAt 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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The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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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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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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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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There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
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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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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
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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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Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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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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I don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
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Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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