Queen Rania of Jordan Quotes

"We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes."

"I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad."

"I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how."

"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."

"When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society."

"Being queen is overrated."

"By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything."

"I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me."

"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."

"Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony."

"I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others."

"The more time goes on, the closer I am to the ground. I've been exposed to so many issues and people living under different pressures. It's helped me realize that a lot of glamorous things that people prioritize really don't matter."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are."

"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."

"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."

"The protocol things, the officialdom, are part of my work. But it doesn't take more than 20 percent of my time. The majority of my time I spend on issues that I care about."

"I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona. With my children, I'm just 'Mom.' 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."

"I really feel that political will is born out of popular will."

"When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights."

"My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'"

"Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth."

"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."

"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?"

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

"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."

"Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive."

"I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale."