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The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.

Queen Rania of Jordan

My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
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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.
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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.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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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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Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone’s rights. It’s where we’re reminded that we’re all human and all equal. It’s where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.
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We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I’d rather not focus on that.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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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 democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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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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