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.

Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

Let us pick up our books and pencils. They are our most powerful weapon.

And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.

I am not here to speak against the Taliban. I'm here to speak up for the right of every child.