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

Queen Rania of Jordan

I don’t believe there is a clash between cultures. I believe there is a clash between perceptions of each other.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Believe Culture Perception
There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Day Misperception One Stereotype
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
My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Models People Role Wish
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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Children Daunting Empowerment Opportunity Safety Women
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Changing Dream Jobs Life
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
Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Great Teacher Transform Good
I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Born Political Will
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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Day End Essence Important
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Exclusive Modernity Religion
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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Empowered Feels Labels
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
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 youth are the catalysts for real change.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Catalyst Real Youth
I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Believe Children World