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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.

Queen Rania of Jordan

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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Devotion God Mean People
The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Communist Hardest Misperception Religion Women
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 JORDAN

Country Girl Looks
We look at problems happening halfway across the world and we think, ‘Well, that’s their problem.’ But it’s not. … When you solve somebody else’s problem, you’re solving a problem for yourself because our world today is so interconnected.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Our Thinking Today World
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Course Democracy Process
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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Common Sense Girl Moral
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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Believe Out Speaks Thinking
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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

People Population Thinking
Being queen is overrated.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Being Overrated People Queens
By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive – and that precludes everything.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Everything Goal Lines Precludes Self
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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Believe Rich Understanding
I’m amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Hurt People Women World
Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Changing Future Girl World
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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Distrust Doubt People
Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Protect Shields Throw
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