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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

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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Modernity is not about dress codes.
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Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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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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Hurt People Women World
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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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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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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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 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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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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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
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