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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANSocial media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone’s rights. It’s where we’re reminded that we’re all human and all equal. It’s where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.
More Queen Rania of Jordan Quotes
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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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Modernity is not about dress codes.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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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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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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Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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Being queen is overrated.
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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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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 don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
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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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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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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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