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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

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?
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Expressison Home Husband Personal Son
The job description for a queen changes with the times.
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Description Jobs Queens
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.
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Believe Out Speaks Thinking
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Exclusive Modernity Religion
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
The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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Catalyst Real Youth
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
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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Changing Dream Jobs Life
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
Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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Changing Future Girl World
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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Cascade Educated Girl
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
Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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Great Teacher Transform Good
My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
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Models People Role Wish
Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.
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Protect Shields Throw
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