Being queen is overrated.
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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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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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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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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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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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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Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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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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I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women’s empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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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.
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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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The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
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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 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 want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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