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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANModernity is not about dress codes.
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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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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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Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone’s rights. It’s where we’re reminded that we’re all human and all equal. It’s where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.
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The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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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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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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Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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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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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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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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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 really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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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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