My mother always told me,”hide your face- people are looking at you”. I would reply,”It does not matter; I am also looking at them.

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.

I had two options. One was to remain silent and wait to be killed. And the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up.

Books are a better investment in our future than bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity.

I want every girl, every child, to be educated.

This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.