Queen Rania of Jordan Quotes
The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.
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It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.
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When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.
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God forbid that women have fantasies.
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
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Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
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I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.
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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
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You'd be surprised how self-conscious a lot of women are. That's something I've witnessed firsthand.
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Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.
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We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.
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Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.
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One of its most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to be un-civilised, with those who do not - or cannot be trusted to - share our values.
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Kilbane's head is better than his feet. If only he had three heads, one on the end of each leg.
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The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
