Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANEducate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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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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The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Extremism is not endemic in my region, nor is anti-Western sentiment. No doubt there is discontent and distrust. That is towards more the American and some Western policies, and not toward the American people.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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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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Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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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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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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Being queen is overrated.
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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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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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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.
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