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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.

Queen Rania of Jordan

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
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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Everything Goal Lines Precludes Self
The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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Catalyst Real Youth
The job description for a queen changes with the times.
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Description Jobs Queens
Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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Changing Future Girl World
Being queen is overrated.
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Being Overrated People Queens
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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Our Thinking Today World
Modernity is not about dress codes.
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Code Dress Dresses Modernity
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
I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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Person Sacrifice Want
I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Born Political Will
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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Cascade Educated Girl
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Course Democracy Process
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
There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
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Day Misperception One Stereotype
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