The job description for a queen changes with the times.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANGood teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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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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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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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 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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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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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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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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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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There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
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Being queen is overrated.
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Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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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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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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I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
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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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