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QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANThe hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
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The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
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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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There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
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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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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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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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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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The job description for a queen changes with the times.
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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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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive – and that precludes everything.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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