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Queen Noor
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“[On the birth of fourth child in six years:] Our planning may leave something to be desired, but our designs, thank God, have been flawless.”
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“Everyone I knew, including my new friends in Jordan, expressed horror at the realities of the Holocaust. But they resented, as I was growing to, how Arabs were cast as the aggressors in the dispute between Israel and the Arab countries, when it was their land that had been seized to resolve a European political problem.”
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“Alexandre ... began work on an elaborate updo. By the time he was finished, my hair looked like it was wearing me.”
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“For all its considerable merits and inspirational principles, the American system is based upon a continuous uninterrupted process of election campaigns, stretching out year after year. Lost in the perpetual scramble is any long-term vision ...”
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“[To her late husband, King Hussein:] I will not fail you, my love. I will continue on the path we shared, and I know you will be there to help me, as you always were. And when we meet again at the journey's end, and we laugh together once more, I will have a thousand things to tell you.”
Queen Noor, U.S.-born Jordanian queen
(1951)
Born Lisa Halaby.