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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.

Queen Rania of Jordan

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
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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Clothes Creative Expression
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Exclusive Modernity Religion
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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Expressison Home Husband Personal Son
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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Hurt People Women World
The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
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Communist Hardest Misperception Religion Women
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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Day End Essence Important
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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Empowered Feels Labels
The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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Catalyst Real Youth
Being queen is overrated.
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Being Overrated People Queens
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
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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Cascade Educated Girl
I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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Person Sacrifice Want
I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Born Political Will
There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
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Day Misperception One Stereotype
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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Believe Culture Perception