Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANValues are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.
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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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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
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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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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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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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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Look at any country that’s plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society’s ills.
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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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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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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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The job description for a queen changes with the times.
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We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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I don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
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