Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANI 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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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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The job description for a queen changes with the times.
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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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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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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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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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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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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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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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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 want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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I don’t believe there is a clash between cultures. I believe there is a clash between perceptions of each other.
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