My dream is to see every girl educated, in every country.

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

Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.

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

There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.

If he [the Talib] comes, what would you do Malalala? If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there will be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat otherswith cruelty...you must fight others but through peace, through dialogue and through educationthen I'll tell him [the Talib] how important education is and that I even want education for your children as well that's what I want to tell you, now do what you want.

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.