If you hit a Talib, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty. You must fight others through peace and through dialogue and through education.

When I look at my goal, my goal is peace.

I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

In the future, women, rather than men, will be the ones to change the world.

I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls.

We felt like the Taliban saw us as little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God wanted us to be like that He wouldn't have made us all different.

I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity.