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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.

Queen Rania of Jordan

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
The job description for a queen changes with the times.
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Description Jobs Queens
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
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Exclusive Modernity Religion
Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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Great Teacher Transform Good
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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Fighting Media Rights
Being queen is overrated.
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Being Overrated People Queens
Extremism is not endemic in my region, nor is anti-Western sentiment. No doubt there is discontent and distrust. That is towards more the American and some Western policies, and not toward the American people.
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Distrust Doubt People
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
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
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Course Democracy Process
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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Changing Dream Jobs Life
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
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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Day End Essence Important
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