My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.

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

I want to just stay focused on my mission. That is to see every girl get the right to education. And I think this is such an important thing that girls get their right to go to school, and we are losing the potential that these young girls have in this region, like Iraq.

They are afraid of educated women. They are afraid of the power of knowledge.

I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through not only educating our minds, but our hearts and our souls.

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity.