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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.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Exclusive Modernity Religion
Modernity is not about dress codes.
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Code Dress Dresses Modernity
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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Devotion God Mean People
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
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
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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Changing Dream Jobs Life
I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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Person Sacrifice Want
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
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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Fleeting Judgment Television
The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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Catalyst Real Youth
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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Believe Rich Understanding
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.
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Believe Out Speaks Thinking
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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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Course Democracy Process
Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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Changing Future Girl World
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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