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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

Queen Rania of Jordan

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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Believe Out Speaks Thinking
My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I’d rather not focus on that.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Focus Gossip Rumor
Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Great Teacher Transform Good
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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Day End Essence Important
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Changing Dream Jobs Life
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
I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Born Political Will
The youth are the catalysts for real change.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Catalyst Real Youth
We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Judging People Stereotype
I’m amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Hurt People Women World
I don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Loses Sleep Worry
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Course Democracy Process
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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

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

Cascade Educated Girl
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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Devotion God Mean People
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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Our Thinking Today World