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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

When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Cascade Educated Girl
Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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Changing Future Girl World
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
My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I’d rather not focus on that.
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Focus Gossip Rumor
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 want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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Person Sacrifice Want
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
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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Devotion God Mean People
The job description for a queen changes with the times.
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Description Jobs Queens
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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Our Thinking Today World
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Course Democracy Process
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
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
Modernity is not about dress codes.
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Code Dress Dresses Modernity
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Exclusive Modernity Religion
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