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.

I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.

We have to change this idea that women are only supposed to work in the house... Women should go out and be what they want

My goal is to get peace and my goal is to see education of every child.

I don't want awards, I want my daughter. I wouldn't exchange a single eyelash of my daughter for the whole world.

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

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.