Then they told me about the call from home and that they were taking the threats seriously. I don't know why, but hearing I was being targeted did not worry me. It seemed to me that everyone knows they will die one day. My feeling was nobody can stop death; it doesn't matter if it comes from a Talib or cancer. So I should do whatever I want to do.

Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is.

I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.

Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It's your world and you can change it.

I’m still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life.

Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book.