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Being queen is overrated.
Modernity is not about dress codes.
The youth are the catalysts for real change.
Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
Travelers are the greatest ambassadors of tolerance.
I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
The job description for a queen changes with the times.
We are stronger when we listen,and smarter when we share.
Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea.
Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
I don't lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.
There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.
My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.
I don't believe there is a clash between cultures. I believe there is a clash between perceptions of each other.
I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.
The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
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.
I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.
Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life.
Twitter's a great way to tell people across the world what I care about and, hopefully, motivate them to join me in furthering my causes.
By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.
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.
Look 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.
Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.
Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.
It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.
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.
We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.
Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.
The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.
As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.