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.

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right.

The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.

If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would become a paradise within a year.

I am proud to be a girl, and I know that girls can change the world.

Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.