The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANThe hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANI don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANI’m amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANI 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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANLook 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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANBeing queen is overrated.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANBy its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive – and that precludes everything.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANLearning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANMaybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don’t get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANI 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 JORDANSocial 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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANGood teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANThe youth are the catalysts for real change.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANOf course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANThere are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANEducate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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