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

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

I believe the gun has no power at all.

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

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

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

I think everyone makes a mistake at least once in their life. The important thing is what you learn from it. That's why I have problems with our Pashtunwali code. We are supposed to take revenge for wrongs done to us, but where does that end? If a man in one family is killed or hurt by another man, revenge must be exacted to restore nang (honor).