I don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANI 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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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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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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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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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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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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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
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Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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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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When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it’s not common sense yet.
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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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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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Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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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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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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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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