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

Queen Rania of Jordan

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
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
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
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 want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Person Sacrifice Want
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
Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Changing Future Girl World
Modernity is not about dress codes.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Code Dress Dresses Modernity
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
The youth are the catalysts for real change.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Catalyst Real Youth
Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Great Teacher Transform Good
We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Judging People Stereotype
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
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Exclusive Modernity Religion
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
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