Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long, and gives birth to their children.

Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential

Education is the power terrorists fear most.

I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

We realize the importance of light when we see darkness. We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced. In the same way when we were in Swat, we realized the importance of pens and books when we saw the guns.

Why is it, that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard?

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.