I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANOf 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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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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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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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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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Modernity is not about dress codes.
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The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don’t get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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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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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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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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Being queen is overrated.
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The job description for a queen changes with the times.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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