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Modernity is not about dress codes.

Queen Rania of Jordan

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
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
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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Fleeting Judgment Television
For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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Devotion God Mean People
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
The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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Catalyst Real Youth
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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Changing Dream Jobs Life
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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Believe Out Speaks Thinking
Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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Changing Future Girl World
I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Born Political Will
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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Country Girl Looks
Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.
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Protect Shields Throw
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
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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Clothes Creative Expression
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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Believe Culture Perception
The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
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Communist Hardest Misperception Religion Women

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