Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANEducate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
More Queen Rania of Jordan Quotes
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The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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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 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.
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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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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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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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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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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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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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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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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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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don’t get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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